After that, individual landowners would control the mineral rights to their plots, which increased the incentive of those eager to gain Osage lands before the deadline.

A significant landowner, he controlled extensive estates in and around the town.

Much of the wild land in Orange County was set for preservation anyway, he said, and two big cooperative landowners have controlled the situation.

For Denver, like cities and counties in many other Western states, laws require any landowner, whether a private party or the government, to control noxious weeds on the property or risk being fined or even criminally prosecuted.

By Texas law, unless a water district has been formed, landowners control the water beneath their property and can draw it out even if that depletes a neighbor's supply.

The landowner controlled the land and the people had to pay as much as 10 cents for each mecate of land.

As a result, a landowner may or may not control the rights to any oil or natural gas below the ground.

Since landowners usually controlled such councils, no province ever asked that the law be applied.

The idea allowed residential landowners to control real estate speculation and maintain property standards, in an era before the protections of zoning.

A rough rule-of-thumb was that landowners controlled the rural county councils and farmers the rural district councils (which were given responsibility for housing).