Systems of Land Tenure in Various Countries: A Series of Essays Published Under the Sanction of the Cobden ClubMacmillan, 1870 - 431 pages |
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... petite culture in Flanders creates its own capital . § 8. Peasant property does not exclude the employment of machinery , even of the most costly description . § 9. Peasant property only capable of putting the worst soils into cultiva ...
... petite culture in Flanders creates its own capital . § 8. Peasant property does not exclude the employment of machinery , even of the most costly description . § 9. Peasant property only capable of putting the worst soils into cultiva ...
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... small farms are incompatible with a high and perfect state of cultivation . " In Lombardy , in the province of Como , where la petite culture prevails , the value of the cattle per hectare in cultivation is 161 francs ; whilst in the ...
... small farms are incompatible with a high and perfect state of cultivation . " In Lombardy , in the province of Como , where la petite culture prevails , the value of the cattle per hectare in cultivation is 161 francs ; whilst in the ...
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... small and large farming , by placing spade and plough side by side before us . Throughout Flanders , and especially in ... petite culture which vitiates all their conclusions . I am fully aware that these second crops may be derived also ...
... small and large farming , by placing spade and plough side by side before us . Throughout Flanders , and especially in ... petite culture which vitiates all their conclusions . I am fully aware that these second crops may be derived also ...
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... small farmers of Flanders , and of la petite culture , that they have falsified this maxim . § 17. Among the various systems of tenure of land in the Belgian and Dutch Low Countries , there is none more interesting to the student of ...
... small farmers of Flanders , and of la petite culture , that they have falsified this maxim . § 17. Among the various systems of tenure of land in the Belgian and Dutch Low Countries , there is none more interesting to the student of ...
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... petite culture , in the form of manual cultivation ( a form to which we shall see hereafter that la petite culture is by no means confined ) , is almost exclusively appropriate . Too much stress must not be laid on this fact , as just ...
... petite culture , in the form of manual cultivation ( a form to which we shall see hereafter that la petite culture is by no means confined ) , is almost exclusively appropriate . Too much stress must not be laid on this fact , as just ...
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acres agrarian agricultural become Belgium Bengal capital cause century claim common copyhold Court covenant crops Crown 8vo cultivation deceased descend districts edict Edition England English equal existence Extra fcap fact farmer favour Fcap feudal Flanders flax Flemish France French give Government granted hand hectares heirs hereditary holdings improvements increase India indigo plant inheritance interest intestate Ireland Irish labour land system landed property landlord landowners leases legislation lord Madras manor manure ment north-west provinces owner ownership paid peasant peasantry petite culture POEMS political population possession present produce profit property in land proprietors Prussia Punjab purchase question rates rent revenue rule rural Russian ryots serfs settled settlement share small farms soil subdivision Talookdars tenant right tenure territory Teutonic Thegns tion valuation village villein wealth West Flanders whole Zemeendars
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Page 416 - That the estates both of resident and non-resident proprietors in the said territory dying intestate shall descend to and be distributed among their children and the descendants of a deceased child in equal parts ; the descendants of a deceased child or grandchild to take the share of their deceased parent in equal parts among them; and where there shall be no children or descendants then in equal parts to the next of kin in equal degree...
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