7 sentences with “owned”

Seville-based Costa Doñana S.A., which owned the land, was headed by Salvador Echeverría, a contractor who in 1979 was charged with fraud.

They allied themselves with other rich and powerful people, who owned large tracts of land, to try to keep the plebeians, Roman citizens who were not of patrician origin, at bay.

As noted in the last chapter, one of the events that lost the Peloponnesian War for Athens was the fact that 20,000 of its publicly owned slaves were freed by the Spartans from the horrible conditions in the silver mines of Athens.

The main problem was that the aristocrats owned most of the land on which other farmers worked, many of those farmers were increasingly indebted to the aristocrats and, according to Athenian law, anyone who could not pay their debts could be legally enslaved.

The peasants were divided into different categories, including the relatively well-off independents and landlords who owned their own plots of land, to the serfs, the semi-free peasants tied to the land, and then the landless peasants, who were even worse off than the serfs.

Similarly, a large region of southwestern France, Aquitaine, was formally owned by the English royal line, with the awkward caveat that while a given English king could be sovereign in England, his lordship of Aquitaine technically made him a vassal of whoever the French king was.

Feudal lords, i.e. land-owning nobles, lived in "manors", a term that designated not only their royal houses but also the land they owned. All the peasants on their lands owed them rent, originally in the form of crops but eventually in cash, as well as a certain amount of labour each year.