As the Middle Ages ended, France comprised a central core of élections, where local Estates, when they met at all, had little to do with fiscal matters, and a surrounding belt of "lands of Estates" (e.g., Languedoc, Brittany, Normandy, and Burgundy), where custom continued to allow for the administration of taxes.
These range from the 3,606 acres of county parks and 2,914 acres of county nature preserves to 6,011 acres of road rights-of-way, 1,050 acres of recharge basins and 714 acres of cemeteries, and include 4,741 acres of estate lands and vacant properties that are available or may become available for development.
The two parties demanded amnesty for political prisoners, equal rights for Jews, autonomy for Poland, and most important of all expropriation of landed estates for the peasants.
Sexuality was a question of dynastic marriage, the union of landed estates and the generation of labour power.
It's rich with the sense of an alternative countryside history; not just the grand, leisured dreams of landed estates, but a history of industry, forestry, disaster, commerce and work.
All were provided with a staff of priests and assured of supplies through endowments of estates and lands, to ensure religious services and offerings in perpetuity.
In the wake of the rebellion the clan system was broken up and islands of the Hebrides became a series of landed estates.
During a recent assignment to the Chaco region of Argentina and Bolivia for Church World Service, I heard stories of killings from the 1940s onward of those in rural areas who stood up against los patrónes of landed estates and treated workers as little better than serfs - echoes of what happened in El Salvador.
All Roosevelt scholars refer to the family seat as Hyde Park, but Hyde Park is a town; Lord Black prefers to call the house "Springwood," in keeping with the style of identification of landed British estates.
It was incapable of satisfying the most profound desires of the workers, soldiers, and peasants for immediate peace and division of landed estates among the peasants.
Wealth thus derived above all from the ownership of landed estates.
