landholding

Etymology

land + holding

noun

1. A piece of property (land) that is held (owned).
   Thus the unendurable burden on the temples was lightened. For instance, the annual surtaxes of Buddhist temples' landholdings of Hsia-p'u county which had amounted to 515 taels in the late Ming dropped to 309 taels after Ch'ien-lung's edict, and to 229 taels soon afterwards. 1990, Eduard B. Vermeer, Development and Decline of Fukien Province in the 17th and 18th Centuries, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 97
2. The state or practice of owning land.