Offices, with new Byzantine names, were almost hereditary in the wealthy land-owning families.

As a result most rural areas are dominated by a small set of feudalistic land-owning families.

The condition of the town was greatly improved in the 18th century by a land-owning family named Southwell.

Irzykowski came from an aristocratic land-owning family that had fallen on hard times.

In 1952, aged 17, she married into a land-owning family in Pakistan.

A strengthened church in alliance with the land-owning noble families begin to pit their power against the royal family.

Witnesses stated that each land-owning family had to provide one young man and $500 in expenses.

His mother came from a land-owning family in Lincolnshire.

The Leslie family were one of the largest land-owning families in the late 19th century.

The county had only 282 land-owning families (called freeholders) when it was formed in 1858.