Spy fears spark flurry of proposed laws aiming to ban Chinese land ownership Critics say the proposals hark back to racist laws from the early 1900s preventing Asian Americans from becoming ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — A remarkable discovery at the Chester County History Center has extended the historical record of land ownership in Chester and Lancaster Counties. A long-lost document ...

Animals, warlords, and governments all do it, and the modern conception of “fee simple”—that is, unrestricted, perpetual, and private—land ownership has existed in English common law since ...

Abstract. This essay examines the transfer of women's property in the town and neighbourhood of Whitehaven in the late seventeenth-and early eighteenth-century, directing attention to a social group ...

The land became part of New Spain, Provincia de la Luisiana. In 1800, Louisiana Territory, as it was called, was transferred back to the French Republic in a deal with Emperor Napoleon Bonaparte.

The majority of foreign-owned ag land — 62% — is controlled by Canadian and European business interests. Detail from a 1900 map showing land ownership and other details of Yolo County, California.

Abstract. The present article aims to uncover the different meanings attached to land ownership in Palestine during the late Ottoman and British Mandate eras and to show how a 'modern' understanding ...