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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Ill USAGES AND GOVERNMENT Allods, Fiefs and Tenures.?The most apparent character- istic of the feudal regime, that which has given it its name, was the way of possessing land. The normal mode of possession down to the ninth century had been the allod, fully-owned property with no condition and with absolute right of alienation. But from the time the landlords distributed their lands, in tenures to peasants, in fiefs to knights, there were three modes of possession: the allod; the fief, usufruct on condition of noble service; and the tenure (censive, villain, or servile), usufruct on condition of the payment of redevances. Following the custom of the middle ages these possessions became hereditary, and there were three sorts of inheritance. These rights of possession could exist together, superimposed upon each other: a given land was at the same time possessed as censive, as fief, as allod, by three different owners,2?without counting the hereditary intendant, who also held certain irrevocable rights over it. In this sense it is inexact to speak of allods, fiefs, and cen- sives; we should say possessions in allodium, in fief, in censive. But finally the condition of the possessor became attached to the land, in such a way that each estate took on an indelible quality which was imposed upon new possessors. These landswere then called censives, villainages, fiefs, allodsJ; and as the fief could only be held by nobles, a distinction came to be made between noble and not-noble lands. The not-noble lands were the tenures of the villains; the noble lands were the reserves exploited by the noble possessors of fiefs or allods. A noble, on acquiring a censive, no longer made noble land of it; a villain, in possessing a fief (when the custom permitted), did not take away its qual...
| ISBN-13 | 9780217757300 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0217757308 |
| Weight | 0.21 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.13 In |
| List Price | $11.70 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 56 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-08-01 |
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