The adjudication involves the cooperation of landowners and a strong government interest to clarify
landownership boundaries.
Major themes are economic history, property law and legal culture, and
landownership practices.
The French too, like the British, instituted private
landownership in Indochina by the beginning of the twentieth century.
Such changes in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Gillespie warns, must not be seen as a single revolution concerned with "dispossession and expropriation," but rather as the products of linked revolutions in areas of everyday life such as the economy and the legal structure, the rise in literacy, changing patterns of
landownership, agricultural developments, and the rise of towns.
Among their topics are the development of capitalist
landownership in Egypt, the main components of the large landholding class, the relations of production in the countryside, and the large landowners and the social question.
Asher makes the important point that the Colombian state tied collective
landownership protection to environmental stewardship.
So important did written evidence of
landownership become that the estate itself was known as "bookland".
Unlike private land, national forest
landownership doesn't change and our trees have gotten larger compared (to private lands).
A high concentration of
landownership is a major constraint to agricultural growth and alleviation of poverty.
The next chapter turns to the importance of
landownership in Robeson County in shaping Indian identity and the political divisions that were fracturing the Croatan community.
The Color of the Land: Race, Nation, and the Politics of
Landownership in Oklahoma, 1832-1929, by David A.
More broadly, through its operation on land, the law of abandonment facilitates a unique role for
landownership as a mechanism for spreading and enforcing norms of obligation.