Landholder

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Landholder or landowner is a holder of the estate in land with considerable rights of ownership or, simply put, an owner of land.

In the old Europe a landholder was usually a nobleman, see landed nobility.

The largest landowner in the United States (2008) is Ted Turner.^[1] His holdings total more than 2 million acres (8,100 km²).

[edit] See also

• Land ownership
• Landlord
• Fiefdom
• Benefice
• The Land Report

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