| Titre | La diversité des modes de transmission : une géographie tenace | |
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| Auteur | Pierre Lamaison | |
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Revue | Etudes rurales |
| Numéro | no 110-112, 1988 La Terre : succession et héritage | |
| Rubrique / Thématique | La diversité persistante des pratiques successorales |
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| Page | 119-175 | |
| Résumé anglais |
The Variety of the Ways of Devolving Property : Tenacious Geography
This article analyses the results of a 1980 survey of 400 rural notaries public in France. This survey's aim was to understand the means of devolving property ; regional differences ; the continuity, or modification, in relation to the customary substratum in operation till the adoption of the Civil Code ; and changes as a function of recent legal, sociological and economic transformations. Responses were used to draw up a map of local practices. The most striking characteristics is the persistance of regional traditions 180 years after the enactment of the Civil Code. The boundary between the areas with "written" and with "customary" law is still clearly visible : nearly all of southern France, except for viticultural and large forest zones, practises the full inheritance of property whereas the poles of an egalitarian tradition, such as Normandy, the North, Berry. Anjou and Poitou, continue applying a strict system of dividing property among heirs. Many signs indicate that very rapid changes are under way as full inheritance practices are being widely adopted. Since land prices began falling and agriculture has plunged into a demographic and economic crisis, behaviors tend to converge. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/rural_0014-2182_1988_num_110_1_4622 |
