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According to a Scottish landlord group, however, land use is more important than land ownership, and there is not enough evidence for a negative effect. [25] Scholars have linked land inequality with unstable democracies and dictatorships, whereas greater land equality tends to be linked to stable democratic forms of government. [26] [27] [28]
Ownership of land is a much more complex proposition than simply acquiring all the rights to it. It is useful to imagine a bundle of rights that can be separated and reassembled. A "bundle of sticks" – in which each stick represents an individual right – is a common analogy made for the bundle of rights. Any property owner possesses a set ...
After the U.S. conquest of New Mexico in 1846, Anglo-American and Hispano land speculators and attorneys used the U.S. legal system to get ownership of the common land. In 1903, the common lands in their entirety were sold to private owners with the settlers on the grant receiving only a pittance of the proceeds.
However, new types of land ownership is generally disallowed, under the numerus clausus principle, unless they are introduced by legislation. [13] In most states, full ownership of land is known as fee simple, fee simple absolute, or fee. [14] Fee simple refers to a present interest in the land, which continues indefinitely into the future. [14]
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
Checkerboarding also occurred with Native American land grants, where native land was intermingled with non-native land. Many Native American tribes opposed checkerboarding, because it broke up traditionally communal native settlements into many individual plots and allowed non-natives to claim land within those settlements. The Dawes Act of ...
This is page 8 of 53, depicting a parcel of land adjacent to the St. Johns River. Spanish land grants documented claims of land ownership when Spain ceded the territory of Florida to the United States in 1821. Under Spanish rule, land grants were offered to settlers beginning in 1790, to induce settlement of the colony.
Landed property – Income-generating land owned by gentry; Land reform – Changing of laws, regulations, or customs regarding land ownership; Land titling – Assignment of land ownership to its occupants; Land trust – Conservation organization; Lord paramount – Feudal overlord: a lord with no obligations to a higher lord