Under the common law such restraints are void as against the public policy of allowing landowners to freely dispose of their property.

It created a law that allowed landowners to enclose land and remove the right of commoners to use the land.

This allowed wealthy landowners to increase their power and to ensure the continuation of an agrarian-dominated economy.

The great expansion that the world economy underwent at that time allowed Colombian landowners to find attractive opportunities in international markets.

A decade-old government program allowing landowners to destroy some wetlands if they create or restore others is failing, a panel of top scientists said yesterday.

Allowing landowners to transfer development rights only manages it.

The plan would allow private landowners to harvest thousands of acres of trees damaged in a freak windstorm last July.

He implemented a system of debt slavery and forced labor and passed laws allowing landowners to execute workers as a "disciplinary" measure.

It allowed non-resident landowners to vote in Massachusetts.

Timber from state lands helps create a sound infrastructure, allowing small landowners to keep their land forested.