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Parnell's movement proved to be a broad church, from conservative landowners to the Land League which was campaigning for fundamental reform of Irish landholding, where most farms were held on rental from large aristocratic estates.
While the Malaysian government banned further fragmentation, the party sponsored the establishment of the National Land Finance Cooperative Society ( NLFCS ) comprising workers as members and used their periodic contributions to buy up whole estates.
In 1627 Ferdinand enhanced his authority and set an important legal and military precedent by issuing a Revised Land Ordinance that deprived the Bohemian estates of their right to raise soldiers, reserving this power solely for the monarch.
in 1875, the Land Purchase Act was enacted to force owners of the large estates to sell their holdings to the provincial government.
Irish land holdings underwent further massive change in the period 1880s-1930s when a series of Land Acts-by the creation of the Irish Land Commission and Congested Districts Board for Ireland-broke up the previous large estates from which tenant farmers rented property and who were empowered by British and ( later ) Irish government grants and loans to buy their farms instead of renting them.
* Wyndham's Land Purchase Act 1903: offered generous inducement to the landlords to sell their estates to a Land Commission who would then collect land annuities instead of rents.
Its continued agrarian agitation led to the passing of several Irish Land Acts that over three decades changed the face of Irish land ownership, replacing large Anglo-Irish estates with tenant ownership.
# The " Land of Beulah " is Middlesex county north and west of London, which had pretty villages, market gardens, and estates containing beautiful parks and gardens ): " woods of Islington to the green hills of Hampstead & Highgate ";
One consequence of the Land Registration Act 1925 was that only estates in land ( freehold or leasehold ) could be registered.
Among the Heights ' now-vanished riverfront estates was " Minnie's Land ", the home of ornithological artist John James Audubon, who is buried in Trinity Church Cemetery churchyard of the neighborhood's Church of the Intercession ( 1915 ), a masterpiece by architect Bertram Goodhue.
This upheaval eventually resulted in the British government subsidising the sale of landlords ' estates to their tenants in the Irish Land Acts authored by William O ' Brien.
Canavan enjoys hill-walking and, in the Scottish Parliament, he championed the people's right of access to the countryside, successfully introducing amendments to the Land Reform ( Scotland ) Bill in order to extend the right of access to country estates, including land belonging to the Queen.
In some of the German states that were known as Land, the name of such estates assembly was Landtag, analogous to the Reichstag, or Imperial Diet, mainly comprising most of the princes of the Church and hereditary states plus the Imperial Cities.
He established the Community Land Unit and the Fund on which community buy-outs of crofting estates was based.
Maintaining his long-standing interest in land reform, he is a director of Community Land Scotland, formed in 2010 as an umbrella body for community-owned estates covering 500, 000 acres, mainly in the West Highlands and Islands.
The Land Company aimed to buy large agricultural estates in order to sub-divide the land into smallholdings which could be let to individuals.
Banda Singh Bahadur first established a Sikh kingdom and then brought in the Land reforms in the form of breaking up large estates and distributing the land to peasants.
On 10 October The Land Reform Act was passed, which confiscated and redistributed the large Baltic German estates, covering more than half of the territory of Estonia.
The site was eventually purchased by the Urban Land Corporation in November 2000 for development of new housing estates with the retention of the quarry as a lake.
The crusade was aborted upon the death of Emperor Henry VI, whereafter the Teutonic Knights were-re-established as a military order under Grand Master Heinrich Walpot von Bassenheim to secure the conquered estates of the Holy Land.
Raymond's son and successor Bertrand followed his father's example and set out for the Holy Land in 1109, leaving his great estates at his death to his brother Alfonso Jordan.
In 2008, Sony lost the full rights to the estates of Donna Reed and Tony Owen, and as a result the series is now rarely seen on television, although reruns aired on Nick at Nite from 1985 through 1994 and on TV Land in 2002.

Land and were
Finally, however, the arrangements were made and we drove out into the bush in a Land Rover.
Amalric and Guy were sons of Hugh VIII of Lusignan, who had himself campaigned in the Holy Land in the 1160s.
Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').
Along with the secret history, many historical events portrayed in the series were anachronistic ( for example, the last Crusade to the Holy Land ended in 1291 ); this poetic licence would continue in the subsequent Blackadders.
By comparison, the former colony of the United Province of Canada ( divided into the District of Canada East, and the District of Canada West ) and the western provinces were dozens of times larger and in some cases were expanded to take in territory formerly held in British Crown grants to companies such as the Hudson's Bay Company ; in particular the November 19, 1869 sale of Rupert's Land to the Government of Canada under the Rupert's Land Act 1868 was facilitated in part by Maritime taxpayers.
Included in that collection were “ Judgment Night ” ( first published in August and September, 1943 ), the lush rendering of a future galactic empire with a sober meditation on the nature of power and its inevitable loss ; “ The Code ” ( July, 1945 ), an homage to the classic Faust with modern theories and Lovecraftian dread ; “ Promised Land ” ( February, 1950 ) and “ Heir Apparent ” ( July, 1950 ) both documenting the grim twisting that mankind must undergo in order to spread into the solar system ; and “ Paradise Street ” ( September, 1950 ), a futuristic take on the Old West conflict between lone hunter and wilderness-taming settlers.
Amongst those arrested were Générals Daniel KATSUVA wa Katsuvira, Land Forces Chief of Staff, UTSHUDI Wembolenga, Commandant of the 2nd Military Region at Kalemie ; FALLU Sumbu, Military Attaché of Zaïre in Washington, Colonel MUDIAYI wa Mudiayi, the military attaché of Zaïre in Paris, the military attache in Brussels, a paracommando battalion commander, and several others.
Ivory Dominoes were routinely used in 19th century rural England in the settling of disputes over traditional grazing boundaries, and were commonly referred to as " bonesticks " ( see Hartley, Land Law in West Lancashire in the mid-19th Century, Farm Gazette, March 1984 ).
" Consequently, for a time the Falklands were known as " Davis Land " or " Davis ' Land.
Land operations were confined to small scale raids and skirmishes, with few pitched battles.
Blaine hoped that he would have more support from Irish Americans than Republicans typically did ; while the Irish were mainly a Democratic constituency in the 19th century, Blaine's mother was Irish Catholic, and he had been supportive of the Irish National Land League while he was Secretary of State.
In addition, the methods of the IRA were to some extent inspired by the traditions of militant agrarian Irish secret societies like the Defenders, the Ribbonmen and the supporters of the Irish Land League.
Land was reclaimed from the sea and from river deltas by building dikes and drainage, and rice paddies were built on terraces carved into mountainsides.
In the southwest, near Quick Step, is the district known as the " Land of Look Behind ," so named because Spanish horsemen venturing into this region of hostile runaway slaves were said to have ridden two to a mount, one rider facing to the rear to keep a precautionary watch.
Non-combatant members of the Order managed a large economic infrastructure throughout Christendom, innovating financial techniques that were an early form of banking, and building fortifications across Europe and the Holy Land.
Bandits abounded, and pilgrims were routinely slaughtered, sometimes by the hundreds, as they attempted to make the journey from the coastline at Jaffa into the Holy Land.
With this formal blessing, the Templars became a favored charity throughout Christendom, receiving money, land, businesses, and noble-born sons from families who were eager to help with the fight in the Holy Land.
* Untithed food ( tevel ): produce of the Land of Israel requires the removal of certain tithes, which in ancient times were given to the Kohanim ( priests ), Levites and the poor ( terumah, maaser rishon and maaser ani respectively )
Other orders were established in the Iberian peninsula, under the influence of the orders in the Holy Land and the Crusader movement of the Reconquista:

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