land on

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In a statement, the municipality said the demolition of the building was based on a 2014 court order, and "the land on which the structure stood is zoned for leisure and sports uses and construction, and not for residential purposes".

From Barron's

British Columbia’s Supreme Court had ruled that a group of indigenous tribes, the Cowichan Nation, has a “senior and prior” right to private land on a roughly 730-acre tract in Richmond, including his Country Meadows Golf Course.

From The Wall Street Journal

“We are alpha,” Chris Pratt says to his men in “The Terminal List” before they land on a beach, maybe in Syria.

From The Wall Street Journal

Calvin returned to his land on a recent fall day.

From Los Angeles Times

The Panama Canal Authority, meanwhile, is proceeding with plans to sell two plots of land on either side of the waterway to be developed into container ports.

From The Wall Street Journal