7 sentences with “ownership”

In ancient Rome women retained ownership of their dowries in marriage, could initiate divorce, and controlled their own inheritances.

In the Middle Ages, wealth, land and power were intimately connected. Nobles were defined by their ownership of land and by their involvement in armed conflicts.

Land ownership was by far the main determinant of wealth, and with the prevalence of slavery, economies of scale dictated that the more land a given family controlled, the more wealth it could generate.

Even more threatening to the nobility than the loss of legal monopolies over land ownership, the army officer corps and political status was the enormous shift in wealth generation from land to trade and industry.

Another group that benefited was women. For about a century after the plague, women had more legal rights in terms of property, the right to engage in trade, and land ownership, than they had enjoyed before the outbreak of the plague.

Along with that change came the growth of a new type of state and society, one not only defined by the growth of the bureaucracy seen in absolutism, but in the power of the moneyed classes whose wealth was not based on land ownership.

The system of land ownership and the traditional rights enjoyed not only by feudal lords, but also by serfs and freemen who lived under the lords, is called "manor", the rural political and economic system of the early Middle Ages as a whole.