Câteva însemne și simboluri privind proprietatea agrară în satul românesc de la începutul secolului XX
Some Markers and Symbols Regarding the Agrarian Property in the Romanian Village at the Beginning of the 20th Century

Summary/Abstract: Using the information gathered from the primary answers to thefollowing surveys: B. P. Hasdeu, Chestionarul Juridic/ The Legal Survey (1877);Programa pentru adunarea datelor privitoare la limba română/ The Programme forCollecting the Data Regarding the Romanian Language; Cestionarul despretradiŃiunile istorice si anticităŃile Ńerilor locuite de români/ Survey of the HistoricalTraditions and the Antiquities of the Countries Inhabited by Romanians (part 1,1893), and Casa/The Home (1926), a publication belonging to the RomanianLanguage Museum in Cluj, the authors are trying to deliver a modest contributionto the general knowledge regarding the Romanian juridical ethnology.In the first part, the authors insist on the importance of the estate (land) inestablishing a family’s social status in the traditional village, on the ways ofreflecting the status differences in the social relationships among families and onclothing.Subsequently, the study presents the chief strategies of acquiringproprietorship over the land (the right of the first occupant, beneficences,allotments, inheritances, purchases), and the main systems of demarcation ofindividual and shared properties.Finally, the authors present the main techniques of land exploitation,insisting on the chief agricultural systems used at the time.

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