Noun:

குத்தகைக்கு எடுத்த நிலம், நிலக்குத்தகை காலம்,

holdings's Usage Examples:

Before 1846 the number of small holdings was inordinately large.

"Fitzherbert, in deploring the gradual discontinuance of the practice of marling land, had alluded to the grievance familiar in modern times of tenants "who, if they should marl and make their holdings much better, fear lest they should be put out, or make a great fine or else pay more rent.

The nobles who dominated the diet did nothing to remove the most crying evil of the country - the miserable state of the peasants, who had been freed from personal serfdom by Napoleon in 1807, but were being steadily driven from their holdings by the landlords.

On some small holdings, however, it exists with contracts lasting from two to six years.

On the other hand, the small farmers who occupied separated holdings were deterred from improving by the fear of a rise in rent.

archival holdings are usually unique documents, which can also be fragile.

The whole land is covered with feudal holdings, masters of the levy, police, 'c.

In order to farm these, the Church and the rich landowners granted back the holdings on the temporary and conditional terms of tenancy-at-will or of the beneficium, thus multiplying endlessly the land subject to their overlordship and the men who were dependent upon them as tenants.

, formed the backbone of the Lettish middle class, and the liberal professions (nicknamed the " grey barons ") were partly supported by about 10,000 tenants of small farms; (c) the owners of very small holdings in Latgalia and Courland numbered some 10,600.

Certainty and legal protection were so essential that even villain holdings were treated as villain socage when legal protection was obtainable for it, as was actually the case with the peasants on Ancient demesne who could sue their lords by the little writ of right and the Monstraverunt.

It is estimated that there are about io,000 small holdings averaging about four acres and intensely cultivated.

Synonyms:

hold over, carry on, continue, preserve, pressurise, keep, distance, pressurize, maintain, housekeep, conserve, bear on, uphold,

Antonyms:

stand, outgo, survive, be born, discontinue,