Matters came to a head last month, when a landowner was murdered in a still-murky incident apparently involving squatters.
But for a landowner, planning permission can turn barren fields into a goldmine.
Yet Mr Dewar's scheme is full of difficulties: who decides, for instance, that a landowner is bad, rather than just not very good?
The legislation excluded anything built after the medieval age and any inhabited buildings, but the freedom to do what you liked as a landowner was now over.
During the political upheavals on Crete that led to the island becoming part of the modern Greek state, Evans's position as a landowner helped ensure Knossos remained free from encroachment.
That was the start of the famous Gold Rush, which ruined Marshall's employer, a landowner named John Sutter whose property in what is now the heart of metropolitan Sacramento was overrun by gold-mad prospectors.
But Mr Monti felt the scheme was an illegal state aid because it might give a windfall increase in value to a landowner, a subsidy to a developer, or a hidden subsidy to a renter of the new premises.
It was caused by a private landowner clearing vegetation with a weed trimmer, which may have hit a rock and produced a spark that ignited the dry brush, U.S. Forest Service spokeswoman Linda Christman said.
You can also reap profits, or rents, as well as tax benefits, as a passive, absentee landowner or a speculator.
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The area is between the National Trust visitor centre and the South Foreland lighthouse and currently belongs to a local landowner.
The mayor of Lanai has described Mr Murdock as a caring landowner.
Brown-Forman, for its Don Eduardo brand, promotes the fact that Don Eduardo Orendain was a real landowner who worked his own agave fields.
Ms Lister said, as a significant landowner in mid Cornwall, fly-tipping near Imerys's entrances and access points had become "common hotspots" for dumping waste.
Chiles grew up on a plantation picking cotton for a white landowner, and going to segregated schools with her three sisters in the town of Itta Bena.
Descended from Zhu Yuanzhang, the first Ming-dynasty Emperor (1368-98), the Zhu clan was a big landowner around Changsha in Hunan province, where Zhu was born in 1928.
In the 1998 case, the Sierra Club successfully challenged a private landowner on the Moose River in Hamilton County to establish the right of paddlers to cross private tracts.
In 1882, they enter Appaloosa, a New Mexico frontier town, and offer their services to people who are being terrorized by a rapacious landowner and gang leader (Jeremy Irons).
And though the aim is to help communities develop environmentally sustainable economies, there are plenty of cases where conservation interests, such as the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (now a big landowner), have clashed with locals who have different ideas about sustainable development.
At that time, the old barons still dominated the government, the Prime Minister a huge feudal landowner.
There is ample precedent for both positions, including a nearly identical case regarding a neighborhood in Barkan where the land in question belonged - without question - to a private Jewish landowner.
The Asian touches evoke the heritage of company founder and chief executive Eugene Sit, a 59-year-old Chinese immigrant who jokes that he would have been a wealthy Guangzhou landowner today if the Communists hadn't imprisoned his mother and confiscated his grandparents' vast holdings in 1949.
In a nearby village, farmer and landowner Karam Hussein told me that despite being a supporter of President Mohammed Morsi, he felt very frustrated at the lack of development in Upper Egypt.
That man is now working with the landowner and a mediator on how to make amends.
In a statement, the landowner said it was "fully assisting in finding or providing alternative premises" for the rescue centre.
He agreed that Mr Coats had told him that "by way of recompense" Ms Spence said he was to take the caravan in Fife but there was a problem with the landowner and "it couldn't be done".
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Ms Palmer's research builds on findings of a recent study that showed landowner partnerships over large areas were the best way to deter deer damage.
One landowner offered up a large, unused plot of land for a garden and high school classes have come out to plant and harvest tomatoes, squash, potatoes and melons, Anderson said.
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In a statement, the Arts Council of Wales told BBC Wales it had a legal agreement with the landowner to ensure that members of the public could visit the art installations on the site, and that this agreement existed beyond the life of the Cywain centre.
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Ken Jones, director of the rural and coastal portfolio for the Crown, said the buyer was a "well-respected local landowner".
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