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1696 Jrnls. House of Commons (1803) II. 713/1 A Petition..was presented..setting forth, That the Petitioners, and their Ancestors, have, Time out of Mind, enjoyed the Benefit of the said Common; without the Help of which they cannot support their Indigent Families; being most of them Cottagers of small Holdings.

1735 G. Berkeley Querist §104 Whether Flax and Tillage do not naturally multiply Hands, and divide Land into small Holdings?

1778 A. Wight Present State Husbandry in Scotl. I. i. 29 It is a small holding of betwixt twenty and thirty acres.

1852 Eighteenth Rep. Commissioners National Educ. Ireland I. App. E. 747 The establishment there at present consists of a small holding of three acres, tilled by the boys of the school.

1892 Act 55 & 56 Vict. c. 31 §1 The expression ‘small holding’..shall mean land acquired by a council..which exceeds one acre and either does not exceed fifty acres, or..is of an annual value..not exceeding fifty pounds.

1926 Act 16 & 17 Geo. V. c. 52 §2 The expression ‘full fair rent’ in relation to a small holding means the rent which a tenant might reasonably be expected to pay for the holding if let as such and the landlord undertook to bear the cost of structural repairs.

1958 C. L. Dozier Indigenous Trop. Agric. in Central Amer. 85 This rice is raised on rented small holdings and is sold in the rough to the rice beneficio.

2010 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 9 Dec. 59/2 This desolate style of industrial agriculture dwarfs the orchards and smallholdings that line the rivers.

1889 Rep. Select Comm. Small Holdings 6/1 in Parl. Papers (H.C. 313) XII. 1 Do you consider that that power of mortgage is an essential part of any system of small holding?

1927 S. L. Bensusan Latter-day Rural Eng. viii. 73 Smallholding thrives in Lincolnshire.

1990 R. Staines Market Gardening 7 We tend to think market gardening has died out because new terms have appeared: smallholding, self-sufficiency, etc. These are really trying to describe something different.