A land tenure involves a person holding the rights to a parcel of land for a set period of time. There is a leader that holds the actual rights to the land during this tenure period. During the tenure period, the land would have to be worked and a percentage of the crops or the profits given to the holder of the deed of the land. At the end of the tenure period the worker would own their land if they had met the requirements all the time.
The biggest barriers though were the regulations for the land. In many instances they had to give up the majority of what they had grown or the profits from it. This didnt leave them very much to live on. In times when the weather was bad or the soil poor, they may not have yielded enough at all.
The use of land tenure contracts was huge during the time of feudal systems. By the end of it things were so complex that they were not longer able to enforce them. Those that had purchased land this way in the past were offering to help those struggling to do so now. As a result they didnt have to depend on the land tenure programs as much. By 1660 the Tenures Abolition Act had taken care of all of them.
That didnt mean that the...
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