land ownership
Holding real estate
Land ownership is the legal right to possess, use, and transfer a piece of land.
The concept varies across legal systems—some recognize absolute ownership, others grant only use rights from the state.
Land ownership has historically determined wealth, political power, and social standing: Land ownership was restricted to white men.
Disputes over land ownership drive conflicts from neighbor feuds to wars.
- deedWritten property conveyance
- title deedDocument proving property ownership
- titleFormal honorific or name
- enclosure movementPrivatization of communal farmland
- inheritanceProperty received from ancestors
cadastre · indigenous rights · squatter's rights · tribal territories · real estate market · homesteading · primogeniture · lien · feudalism · registry · landlord · claim · estate · manor · back forty · family farm · forty acres · parcel
- farm economicsfarm economy, farm income, farm loans, farm credit, farm management
- noble privilegespeerage, titles, lordship, fiefdom, manorial rights
- Real Estate Goalshomeownership, equity, appreciation, profit, rental income
- settlementvillages, towns, urban development, population growth, wells
- territoryterritory, region, domain, realm, dominion
- Land Propertydeed, parcel, lot, plot, tract
land ownershiprenting
Paying for temporary use
leasing · tenancy · landlessness · tenant farming · sharecropping
land ownershiplandlessness
Lacking owned territory
dispossession · propertylessness · nomadism · homelessness · disinheritance
land ownershipcommon land
Collectively held open ground
public land · state ownership · commons · communal ownership · nationalization