landed society

As defined by English judges, common law itself offered tenants some minimal protections that eighteenth-century New York rentiers had often ignored. Thus the legal custom of landed society had exempted from seizure beasts of plow, certain essential household goods, and especially the implements of trade unless all other remedies had proved insufficient.

It was a landed society, a society which regarded only land and landed wealth as ultimately acceptable in creating status.

It is a traditional peer society to Scroll and Key and Wolf's Head, as the three senior classes landed societies at Yale.

In October 1940 the Forestry Commissioners enlisted the services of forestry and landed societies to help with the distribution of wire and rabbit netting to private estates requiring it for afforestation purposes.