Sentence examples for land tenancy from inspiring English sources

Agricultural law concentrates on legal issues of both theoretical and practical significance to agriculture such as land tenure, land tenancy, farm labour, farm management, and taxation.

The system successfully preserves a sanitized form of medieval land tenancy, but it makes cost-effective agriculture impossible, since it divides the land among far too many tenants.

In the mid-eighteenth century, the rule of the clans began to be replaced by a modern system of land tenancy — the beginning of the clearances.

Land tenancy was more diffuse here than in Europe, voting more widespread, state power less centralized, and political censorship less strict.

"There are just too many powerful interests at play any time an issue of land tenancy comes up," said Murilo da Costa Santos, an official at the Palmares Cultural Foundation, a government agency entrusted with preserving and developing black culture in Brazil.

Total agricultural area has not been much affected mainly due to land tenancy.

This has made little progress, however, because of foot-and-mouth preventative measures and the area's complicated pattern of flock ownership and land tenancies.

In addition to agricultural pursuits and land tenancies, Beverley received additional revenue from the sale of land throughout western Virginia.

The predominant land use was dairy farming, but the estate also included some arable land; tenancies ranged from crofts of 1 or 2 acres (less than a hectare) to large farms of over 300 acre.

In short, the Law for Agrarian Modernization "radically altered the structure of land-tenancy, as well as the rationale for land reform".

Most reforms have narrowed the gap between reform beneficiaries and other farmers through land redistribution and tenancy control, but only the comprehensive socialist reforms have narrowed the gap between agriculture and other sectors of the economy.