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land tenure

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Noun1.land tenure - the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands
legal right - a right based in law
copyhold - a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services
freehold - tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
villeinage - tenure by which a villein held land

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amp;nbsp;   Notwithstanding what we see in many other professions like politics, dynasties are becoming harder to establish in grain farming thanks to changes in land tenure.
Pointing to the richness of traditional Hawaiian understandings of land tenure and person, King and Roth begin by considering the transformation of these understandings after the end of the Kingdom and in the twentieth century, and how they became integral to Hawaiian education.
Land tenure specifically relating to Native issues is another factor inhibiting exploration.
 
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