landed estate

In real estate, a landed property or landed estate is a property that generates income for the owner without the owner having to do the actual work of the estate. In medieval Western Europe, there were two competing systems of landed property, on one hand manoralism, inherited from the Roman villa system, where a large estate is owned by the Lord of the Manor and  leased to tenants, and on the other hand the family farm or owned by and heritable within a commoner family (c.f. yeoman), inherited from Germanic law.