Landed property or landed estates is a real estate

Real estate

In general use, esp. North American, 'real estate' is taken to mean "Property consisting of land and the buildings on it, along with its natural resources such as crops, minerals, or water; immovable property of this nature; an interest vested in this; an item of real property; buildings or...

 term that usually refers to a property that generates income

Income

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 for the owner without the owner having to do the actual work of the estate. In Europe, agrarian landed property typically consisted of a manor

Manorialism

Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market...

, several tenant farms, and some privileged enterprises such as a mill

Gristmill

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. Modern landed property often consists of housing or industrial land, generating income in the form of rents or fees for services provided by facilities on the land, such as port facilities. Owners often commissioned an Estate map

Estate map

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 to help manage their estate as well as serving as a status symbol.

Landed property was a key element of feudalism

Feudalism

Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for ordering society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.Although derived from the...

, and freed the owner for other tasks, such as government

Government

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 administration, military

Military

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 service, the practice of Law or religious

Religion

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 practices.

In later times, the dominant role of landed estates as a basis of public service faded. Development of manufacturing

Manufacturing

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 and commerce

Commerce

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 created capitalist

Capitalism

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 means of obtaining income, but ordinarily demanding the attention of the owner; at roughly the same time, governments began imposing taxes to fund government bureaus

Government agency

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 and the military so that people of talent could perform government services for salaries without need for the proceeds of ownership of farmland. Parts of the United States of America, typically New England

New England

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 and Pennsylvania

Pennsylvania

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, never had a landed aristocracy

Aristocracy

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, so their armed forces and government agencies could never be organized on the basis of a landed aristocracy.

See also

• Feudalism
  Feudalism
  Feudalism was a set of legal and military customs in medieval Europe that flourished between the 9th and 15th centuries, which, broadly defined, was a system for ordering society around relationships derived from the holding of land in exchange for service or labour.Although derived from the...
  
  
• Landed gentry
  Landed gentry
  Landed gentry is a traditional British social class, consisting of land owners who could live entirely off rental income. Often they worked only in an administrative capacity looking after the management of their own lands....
  
  
• Land tenure
  Land tenure
  Land tenure is the name given, particularly in common law systems, to the legal regime in which land is owned by an individual, who is said to "hold" the land . The sovereign monarch, known as The Crown, held land in its own right. All private owners are either its tenants or sub-tenants...
  
  
• Manorialism
  Manorialism
  Manorialism, an essential element of feudal society, was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire, was widely practiced in medieval western and parts of central Europe, and was slowly replaced by the advent of a money-based market...
  
  
• Gentry
  Gentry
  Gentry denotes "well-born and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past....
  
  
• Gentleman farmer
• Old Money
  Old Money
  Old money is "the inherited wealth of established upper-class families " or "a person, family, or lineage possessing inherited wealth." The term typically describes a class of the super-rich, who have been able to maintain their wealth across multiple generations.- United States :American locations...