The land law, for example, sets no upper limits on the maximum size of landholdings.
In contrast, loyalists were able to continue their lives, expand their landholdings and grow cash-crops.
Missing information about landholding has no bearing on the argument of this article since the focus is on the structure of the household.
The principal advantage in such strategies was the possibility of dividing landholdings between children (instead of primogeniture), and this could include granting land to daughters.
As noted, the size of one's landholding in the tank-bed never exceeded a half of his holdings in the service area of the same tank.
The majority of households which increased their landholdings had two married couples, sometimes even three or four.
Commonly, expansion into new territory and the consolidation of landholding was through the creation of canopy clans.
Two men, one of whom was single and one whose landholding history is unclear, were excluded.
