Sentence examples for land act from inspiring English sources

(The Alien Land Act was repealed in the 1950's).

After becoming minister of that state's land and works (1857), he promoted an important land act.

Mr Plaatje was writing in response to the Natives Land Act, the first major piece of legislated racial segregation.

Locals are forced to clear land, act as porters for the army and provide food and housing.

Conditions in Ireland quickly eased after William Ewart Gladstone's Land Act of 1881 instituted fair-rent tribunals.

The passage in 1881 of Gladstone's Land Act, restricting the privileges of landlords, was a victory for the league.

The 1913 Natives Land Act carved up territory along racial lines, in effect giving 90% of land to white people.

The passage in 1881 of William Gladstone's Land Act, which conceded the principle that fair rents could be judicially determined, presented Parnell with a serious test of statesmanship.

He also pledged a new Land Act that would speed up the return of lands to the 3m people displaced by violence.

The 1913 Land Act, which reserved 87% of the country's land for the white minority, was followed by decades of forced removals by successive apartheid governments.

Most levee districts were not populous enough to cover the multiplying costs, so the United States Congress, in 1850, wrote the swamp and Overflow Land Act.