landed society

Definitions

1. A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.
   uncountable
2. A socio-economic system in which wealth and status are derived primarily from land ownership.
   countable
3. A secret society that owns its own premises.
   countable
4. A landowner's association.
   countable

Examples

“As defined by English judges, common law itself offered tenants some minimal protections that eighteenth-century New York rentiers had often ignored. Thus the legal custom of landed society had exempted from seizure beasts of plow, certain essential household goods, and especially the implements of trade⟳ unless all other remedies had proved insufficient.”

“What makes this particular period so interesting is the remarkably volatile nature of the land⟳ market in Scotland; an enormous amount of land⟳ changed hands, and some minor noble families made quite staggering inroads into the highest levels of landed society.”

“Over the years, historians of the late-medieval English gentry have⟳ mapped out several working models to explain⟳ the character and behavior of landed society in various localities around the country.”

“It was a landed society, a society which regarded only land⟳ and landed wealth as ultimately acceptable in creating status.”

“For them Locke was the classic theorist of landed society and the landholder, not of commerce and mercantile interests.”

“In addition, it is perhaps of equal importance that in a landed society those at the top of the pyramid have⟳ interests in common and little to divide⟳ them.”

“It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior classes landed societies at Yale.”

“Societies that own⟳ tombs or halls are sometimes known as 'landed' societies. The three oldest landed societies are Skull and Bones (1832), Scroll and Key, (1841) and Wolf's Head, (1883).”

“Landed societies, like⟳ Bones, have⟳ buildings on campus. Their headquarters is a brown sandstone mausoleum known as the Tomb: a crypt-like, windowless structure⟳ that is strictly off-limits to non-members.”

“In October 1940 the Forestry Commissioners enlisted the services of forestry and landed societies to help⟳ with the distribution of wire and rabbit netting to private estates requiring it for afforestation purposes.”

“But delaying the "reform⟳" was the cattle farmers' lobby and other landed societies, which were actively vying to counter the so-called "Communist" influence⟳ of the National Peasant Union, a powerful lobby challenging the status quo.”

“Allegiance to the homestead ethic thus inspired the settlers to resist⟳ incorporation in a landed society dominated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and its Big Three owners.”

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