Crown land
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- noun
- UK
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tierras de la Corona
- The two small reserves demarcated (Lower Gwelo and Que Que) were created to accommodate Africans removed from private and Crown land.
- tenants on Crown land
So there's a historical, their historical crown lands, as you know, in this class of Galicia, we call them Galicia and Volinia.
- So there's a historical, their historical crown lands, as you know, in this class of Galicia, we call them Galicia and Volinia.
Examples
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The committee recommended, among other things, the addition of about 563,447 acres of Crown land and 735,789 acres of unassigned land to native reserves.
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Slavery, which provided the French planters with agricultural as well as domestic labor, was abolished in 1835, and the emancipated slaves left the plantations to settle on Crown land along the coast.
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No one points out that crown land and government land are pretty much the same thing.
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For the majority of Africans, signing a labor agreement was one way of gaining access to Crown land.
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As the surveys progressed, the squatters with their stock became more crowded on the remaining Crown land.
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In Ontario, forest companies are required to pay a stumpage fee to the provincial government as a royalty for trees cut down on Crown land.
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In addition to Africans residing on Crown land, there were many more families residing in overcrowded native reserves.
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Africans living on Crown land and on alienated land were not allowed to live on this land under a strict interpretation of the LAA, but had been allowed to remain pending a solution to the land problem.
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The first part of the study focuses on the lives of Rhodesdale tenants on Crown land and demonstrates the resilience of their economy in the face of the colonial onslaught, as shown by the economic success of some black entrepreneurs.
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Many national parks are established on crown land to protect natural resources for public enjoyment.
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'land owned by the monarch or state' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'Crown' (the monarch or state as an institution) with 'land' (territory). Although it is a legal/administrative term common in Commonwealth contexts, the metonymic composition is straightforward and cross-linguistically paralleled, so a B1 learner who knows both words would likely infer the meaning.
Etymology
Crown land comes from the idea that the king or queen's crown showed which land belonged to them, like placing a crown on a field to claim it. That's why Crown land today means 'land owned by the monarch or state'.