Abstract
It is not wrong to say that the nature and intent of a society reveal themselves in the legal and customary concepts of property held by the various members and classes of that society. These property concepts do not change without an incipient or fundamental change in the nature of the society itself. The history of property relations in a given society is thus, in a way, the history of the society itself.
Notes
1
Noboru
Niida
,
Chūgoku no nōson kazoku
[The Village Family of China] (Tokyo
, 1952
), pp. 4
–5
.2
On these terms, see
Hoang
Pierre
,
Notions techniques sur la propriété en Chine
(Shanghai
, 1897
), pp. 5f
.3
Cf.
Noboru
Niida
,
; cf., also, Tōsō hōritsu monjo no kenkyū
(The Critical Study on Legal Documents of the T'ang and Sung Eras) (Tokyo
, 1937
), pp. 116
–117
Noboru
Niida
, “
Kan-gi-rikuchō ni okeru tochi baibai monjo no sobyō
” [“Sketch of Land Sale Documents in the Han, Wei, and Six Dynasties (Period)”], Rekishigaku kenkyū
, VI
(1936
), 71
.4
7
The actual text was not available to me; I quote from
Tōsō hōritsu monjo no kenkyū, p.
574
.8
See Yūan-shih shih-fan (Chih-pu-tsu-chai ts'ung-shu ed., ts'e 106), 1.10b–11a.
9
Noboru
Niida
,
Chūgoku hōseishi
[History of Chinese Law] (Tokyo
, 1952
), p. 230
.11
Eberhard states that the figure varied between 4.8 and 5.5 individuals per household for the last two millenia; see
Eberhard
Wolfram
, “
Bemerkungen zu den statistischen Angaben der Han-Zeit
,” TP
, XXXVI
(1941
), 4
.12
Cf.
Schacht
Joseph
,
The Origins of Muhammadan Jurisprudence
(Oxford
, 1950
), pp. 201f
.13
Ch'ing-ming chi (Hsü Ku-i ts'ung-shu ed., ta'e 4),
; Yüan tien-chang, 19.21a.167a
14
Ch'ing-ming chi (ts'e 4),
73f
.16
Jamieson
G.
,
Chinese Family and Commercial Law
(Shanghai
, 1921
), pp. 99
–100
.17
Personal information derived from western Afghanistan.
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