Land-holder

Many of the noble land-holders in Sleſwick and Holſtein, have the power of life and death.

[…] that house receive such an air as to make its owner be set down as the great land-holder of the parish, by every creature travelling the road; […]

The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders.