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extensive landed property (especially in the country) retained by the owner for his own use
the family owned a large estate on Long Island
How To Use landed estate In A Sentence
- The dissolution of the monasteries strengthened the influence of the gentry and nobility and the shire became famous for its landed estates.
- Take , for instance, a mortgage of a thousand pounds on a landed estate.
- The previous Victorian act, the Land Tax Act 1877, was directed to lands owned by squatters, what were known as landed estates.
- He has left all his landed estate, which is eight and twenty thousand pounds a-year, including the Bradford estate, which his brother had from that ancient family, to a cousin-german. Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman
- The peasants' demands for land, bread, and peace were initially addressed by means of a highly concessive peace treaty with the Germans (the Treaty of Brest - Litovsk), and the redistribution of the landed estates.
