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1928 coffee plantation villa in Indies style, near Magelang, Central Java.. A landhuis (Dutch for "mansion, manor", plural landhuizen; Indonesian: rumah kongsi; Papiamento: kas di shon or kas grandi) is a Dutch colonial country house, often the administrative heart of a particuliere land or private domain in the Dutch East Indies, now Indonesia.
Lord of the manor, the owner of an agreed area of land (or "manor") under manorialism; Manor house, the main residence of the lord of the manor; Estate (land), the land (and buildings) that belong to large house, synonymous with the modern understanding of a manor. Manor (in Colonial America), a form of tenure restricted to certain Proprietary ...
These homes, known as solares (paços, when the manor was a certain stature or size; quintas, when the manor included a sum of land), were found particularly in the northern, usually richer, Portugal, in the Beira, Minho, and Trás-os-Montes provinces. Many have been converted into a type of hotel called pousada.
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In medieval Western Europe, there were two competing systems of landed property; manorialism, inherited from the Roman villa system, where a large estate is owned by the Lord of the manor and leased to tenants; and the family farm or Hof owned by and heritable within a commoner family (c.f. yeoman), inherited from Germanic law.
In the British Isles, and sometimes elsewhere, a home farm (sometimes known as a manor farm) is a part of a large country estate that is farmed by the landowner or an employed farm manager (often as a source of food and horse-keeping for the estate household), rather than being rented out to tenant farmers like most of the estate.
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The government's programme of land reacquisition began in 1912, but halted during the Great Depression (1929-1939). [3] In 1935, the government founded NV Javasche Particuliere Landerijen Maatschappij ['Java Private Domains Company'], which was tasked with the acquisition of the particuliere landerijen on the open market.