a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 188 And with all the bondmen of the same lond holdyng and with all theire sequele.

1662 W. Dugdale Hist. Imbanking & Drayning Fens xix. 92/2 All which persons by reason of their Land-holdings within the said Marsh, were obliged so to repair and maintain those banks by parcells.

1756 Some Queries Present State Popery in Ireland 11 The temporary and limitted Interests of the Papists, in their several Land-Holdings.

1788 Indian Vocab. 124 For the most part a talookdar's tenure is the securest of any species of landholding in India.

1828 ‘J. Bee’ Living Picture London iii. 188 All legislation is necessarily in the hands of the landlords—i.e. owners of land; land-holding constituting the qualification for validating the peoples' choice.

1885 Daily Herald-Tribune (Lawrence, Kansas) 6 Aug. Great unoccupied and unused land-holdings are not for the well-being of the Indian nor for those who would cultivate small tracts and build up American homes.

1918 H. R. Burch & S. H. Patterson Amer. Social Probl. (1920) x. 118 The legislation of the state discriminates against the Japanese in matters of land holding and public school education.

1979 W. E. Kapelle Norman Conquest of North iii. 84 Bookland..does not completely explain the landholding system at the time of Domesday Book.

2013 Advertiser (Adelaide) (Nexis) 29 June (Finance section) 79 [The corporation] can now focus on developing its extensive landholdings 12km from central Adelaide into a housing project.