Eighteenth-century Bohemian law capped dues on divided peasant holdings

Evidence

In 1751, the government had to issue an explicit decree in regard to the breaking up of peasant holdings in Bohemia. The law was to the effect that if a holding was divided by the manorial lord, each of its parts could not be burdened with more than its portion, in correspondence with its size, of the socage that adhered — Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simmel, 4529

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• QUESTION: The paragraph appears cut off mid-sentence on the Bohemia decree’s exact terms — worth chasing the fuller regulation.