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100 1 _aFustel de Coulanges,
_d1830-1889
245 1 4 _aThe Origin of Property in Land :
_bWith an introductory chapter on the English manor by W. J. Ashley
264 1 _aSalt Lake City, UT :
_bProject Gutenberg,
_c2022
300 _a1 online resource :
_bmultiple file formats
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
500 _aRelease date is 2022-03-04
508 _aTurgut 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)
520 _a"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 The book rigorously engages with historical documents and legal codes to challenge the arguments supporting the communal ownership theory posited by earlier scholars like Maurer.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.)
534 _pOriginally published:
_cUnited Kingdom: Swan Sonnenschein, 1891
653 _aLand tenure -- Law and legislation -- History
653 _aReal property -- History
653 _aManors -- Great Britain
700 1 _aAshley, W. J.
_q(William James),
_d1860-1927
700 1 _aAshley, Margaret,
_d1859-1922
856 4 _uhttps://archive.org/details/originofproperty00fustuoft
856 4 0 _uhttps://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/67558
999 _c108380
_d108380