Farmers defaulting on loans had to auction off their land.とは 意味・読み方・使い方

tenure by which a villein held land

I borrowed ten million yen on my land.

I gave my land as security for a ten million yen loan.

As I need [am in need of] money, I have decided to sell some of my land.

land acquired from the United States public lands by filing a record and living on and cultivating it under the homestead law

Although they cannot even dream of buying land for a house of their own, people are forced to pay heavy taxes.

an administrative measure under which land is forcefully purchased, called land expropriation

The property was purchased with laundered political money.

Land will no longer be subject to speculative hoarding and selling.

The tenant was dispossessed for not paying his rent.

There was not much land to cultivate in the village.

jump a claim

the return derived from cultivated land in excess of that derived from the poorest land cultivated under similar conditions

The land yields a good harvest.

He holds land in mortgage.

lay down the land in [to, under, with] grass

They made a pretty fortune by selling their vast land.

The two families have been at odds with each other over the ownership of the land.

The natives have to defend their land against invaders.

I inherited my father's property.

That land purchase is apparently taking place.

a person who swindles a stranger to the area out of his/her money

The settlers learned that the land in the valley was fertile.

He decided to rent his property to that company.

The land is being offered for building.

the act of swindling a stranger to the area out of his/her money

His lands were forfeit (to the state).

The land yields heavy crops.

claim a right to the use of land

He had to sell his property for a small fraction of its value.