There were very few large landholders and no central authority.

In August 1845, seventeen large landholders announced that they were willing to sell.

Soon, they were the largest landholders in the region, dominating over 100,000 acres.

Multiple larger landholders already held the bulk of the land.

By the late 1980s, the new class of drug traffickers were the largest landholders in Colombia.

It is among the largest landholders and employers in upper Manhattan.

Being a large landholder in the Madison area, he built many homes and leased them to individuals.

He developed several sugar plantations in Hawaii, and became a large landholder.

He died one of the largest landholders in the Maryland colony.

In 1989 a single large landholder had over 400 UP members murdered.