landed society

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1. 1

   A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or…

   A British socio-economic class of landowners, socially just below the aristocracy or peerage, who could live entirely from rental income.

   • Over the years, historians of the late-medieval English gentry have mapped out several working models to explain the character and behavior of landed society in various localities around the country.
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   A socio-economic system in which wealth and status are derived primarily from land…

   A socio-economic system in which wealth and status are derived primarily from land ownership.

   • It was a landed society, a society which regarded only land and landed wealth as ultimately acceptable in creating status.
   • For them Locke was the classic theorist of landed society and the landholder, not of commerce and mercantile interests.
   • In addition, it is perhaps of equal importance that in a landed society those at the top of the pyramid have interests in common and little to divide them.
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   A secret society that owns its own premises.

   • It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior classes landed societies at Yale.
   • Societies that own tombs or halls are sometimes known as 'landed' societies. The three oldest landed societies are Skull and Bones (1832), Scroll and Key, (1841) and Wolf's Head, (1883).
   • Landed societies, like Bones, have buildings on campus. Their headquarters is a brown sandstone mausoleum known as the Tomb: a crypt-like, windowless structure that is strictly off-limits to non-members.
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      A landowner's association.

      • In October 1940 the Forestry Commissioners enlisted the services of forestry and landed societies to help with the distribution of wire and rabbit netting to private estates requiring it for afforestation purposes.
      • But delaying the "reform" was the cattle farmers' lobby and other landed societies, which were actively vying to counter the so-called "Communist" influence of the National Peasant Union, a powerful lobby challenging the status quo.
      • Allegiance to the homestead ethic thus inspired the settlers to resist incorporation in a landed society dominated by the Southern Pacific Railroad and its Big Three owners.

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