The With an introductory chapter on the English manor by W. J. Ashley Fustel de Coulanges 1830-1889 creator Ashley, W. J. (William James) 1860-1927 Ashley, Margaret 1859-1922 text utu 2022 monographic en 1 online resource : multiple file formats "The Origin of Property in Land" by Fustel de Coulanges is a scholarly examination of the theories surrounding land ownership, likely written in the late 19th century. This academic work scrutinizes the prevailing notion that private ownership in land evolved from a primitive system of communal land ownership, particularly in the context of Germanic societies and their legal traditions. The book rigorously engages with historical documents and legal codes to challenge the arguments supporting the communal ownership theory posited by earlier scholars like Maurer. The opening of the work presents a detailed critique of the agrarian communism theory, outlining how various historians and theorists argued that early societies cultivated land collectively before transitioning to private property. Rather than concede to this idea, Fustel sets out to verify the scholarly evidence used to support it, highlighting contradictions within these theories. He emphasizes that early German law reflects a system of private ownership rather than communal participation and suggests that what appears to be community ownership may actually indicate a familial or individual landholding, thus laying a foundation for the assertion of private property over communal rights. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Release date is 2022-03-04 Turgut Dincer and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) Originally published: United Kingdom: Swan Sonnenschein, 1891 Land tenure -- Law and legislation -- History Real property -- History Manors -- Great Britain K United Kingdom: Swan Sonnenschein, 1891 52045494 https://archive.org/details/originofproperty00fustuoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67558 https://archive.org/details/originofproperty00fustuoft https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67558 UtSlPG 260607 20260610134547.0 67558