Hebrew Tribal Economy And the Jubilee As Illustrated in Semitic And Indo-European Village Communities
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Prim. Sem.. 182. The Bhbylonian Village Cummunity. j^39 Thougli aKeuation to the profit, of Oie king or of some public servant is met with, it is sobordinated to the coDsent of tlie tribesmen or of their representatives. Proof of this is found in the persistence of the right of reversion, as evidenced by the attempts, which were made, to restore such alienated property to its original possessors. Whether or not we can be equally sure about the application of the right of reversion in the case o...f arable land which, under the pressure of necessity, might be transferred from one village to another, is less certain. More- over, for the period under consideration, we cannot, for want of corroborative evidence, predicate with precision the occurrence of the custom of re-allotting arable lands among the villagers collectively. Boscawen believes to have discovered, in Baby- lonian literature, an instance of the periodical redistribution of land by a town council i. The same writer states that "a number of villages paid their tithe in a body and were taxed as if they paid individually".
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