Etruscan inscriptions 352 pages

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1872 edition. Excerpt: ...the 'conductor' or 'colonus, ' who paid rent for it, partly in kind and partly in money, or wholly in kind or wholly in money, as might be agreed upon. In course of time, and under the influence of the Prffitors, the practice grew up of presuming a sort of subordinate property in the land, described by a Greek word as 'emphyteusis, ' in favour of the tenant, who was thus placed upon a footing in relation to the landlord of very considerable independence. By this custom, gradually consolidating into law, the tenant acquired at last a perpetual right in the possession or usufruct of the land under the Dominus, conditional on fulfilling the obligations of Conte Giancarlo Conestabile's Monumenti di Perugia, Etrusci e Romani, parte IVta, p. 4. the contract. This right was transmissible to his descendants, and by ordinary law the 'conductor' could transfer or assign the 'possessio' to a third party on a fine to the Dominus, the Dominus having no power of eviction unless the tenant injured the property, failed in payment of rent, alienated without giving due notice, or otherwise infringed the conditions of tenure. Of course, such rights could be limited by private arrangement. The 'Lar, ' 'Dominus, ' or Superior in the case before us was, if I read it rightly, a lady of the name of 1 Aphuna, ' or in Latin form, ' Aponia, ' and the ground leased is described as the ' Salic' or Dominical land, --land originally wild and uncultivated, but which had been (as in other cases) newly fenced in (so I presume) for cultivation, and which was now made over to the 'conductor'--by name ' Lautn Velthina, ' or 'Lautinius Veltinius'--with the reservation of feudal rights to the proprietor. I use the word 'feudal' advisedly; for I think there can be little doubt