One basic issue was the conditions on which the settlers were given tenure of lands (dzierżawa).

The family had considerable tenure of lands around Tain.

On the subject of the tenures of land, the committee recommended that:

The tenure of lands in France strengthened the Valence family's position as intermediaries between the two kingdoms.

Map showing proposed Federal Capital Territory and tenures of land within same, Charles Robt.

Tenures of Land & Customs of Manors.

Our law, in its wisdom, has preserved much of this, and it is particularly remarkable in the customary tenure of land, and in petty serjeanty.

It is usually granted to make some change in the incidents of tenure of land already granted, or to resolve doubts about the grant or its terms.

Arising from the feudal connection between tenure of land and jurisdiction, the status of immediate subject was further distinct from that of a state of the Empire.

All distinctions affecting the tenure of land (noble land, peasants' land, etc.) were also swept away, and the principle of free trade in land was established forthwith.

Other settlers followed, with all of them initially squatting on the land illegally but by 1836 the colonial government regulated the tenure of land and established a licensing scheme.

In the 12th century the process of creation of the knighthood began in Poland (and lasted more than a century), which was strictly connected with a tenure of land.

Homage was not concerned with spiritual functions: it was concerned only with the tenure of land, and the act of homage was one of the main foundations of social organization.

At its origin in medieval England, copyhold tenure was tenure of land according to the custom of the manor, the "title deeds" being a copy of the record of the manorial court.

Much more important was the Act of 1793 giving the Catholics the Parliamentary and municipal franchise, admitting them to the universities and to military and civil offices, and removing all restrictions in regard to the tenure of land.

In the early 1880s, in terms of gaining sympathetic public opinion, crofters were protesting very effectively, with rent strikes and land raids, about their lack of secure tenure of land and their severely reduced access to land.

There have been gipsies, wanderers, knaves, knights-errant and adventurers, no doubt, but the settled permanent rustic home and the tenure of land about it, and the hens and the cow, have constituted the fundamental reality of the whole scene.

A person or community whose tenure of land is legally insecure as a result of past racially discriminatory laws or practices is entitled, to the extent provided by an Act of Parliament, either to tenure which is legally secure or to comparable redress.

He went on to write 10 books and many articles on local history and archaeology, of which The History of Ancient Tenures of Land in the Marches of North Wales, 1885, was regarded both by himself and other scholars as his best work.

But, despite the fact that central authorities in Beijing have increased the tenure of land contracts for farmers from 15 years to 30 years, most farmers are still subject to losing their land in periodic "reallocations" by local officials to take into account deaths in some families and coming of age of new farmers in others.

Bashō's own references to this time are vague; he recalled that "at one time I coveted an official post with a tenure of land", and that "there was a time when I was fascinated with the ways of homosexual love", but there is no indication whether he was referring to real obsessions or even fictional ones.