the.com/landowner
Someone who pays taxes on dirt so the dirt can pay them rent.
means A person or entity holding legal title to a piece of land and whatever sits on it.
from Plain English compound, land plus owner, but the concept is ancient: from feudal lords holding territory by royal grant down to today's deed-clutching suburbanites.
Legal depthOwnership once stretched from earth's core to sky.
Voting rootsEarly democracies let only landowners cast ballots.
Air rightsSkyscrapers sell the empty space above land.