Right of redemption (historical)

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Replacement is a historical legal concept of real law that originated in the 19th century . Replacement represents the elimination of a legal obligation based on a statutory provision, in particular the elimination of the private-law burdens and obligations of a real nature resting on the property.

The term was introduced in connection with the lifting of rural dependency in the 19th century ( peasant liberation ). Redemption meant that the peasants who had to pay the lease or, in exceptional cases, the full ownership of their farms only received compensation payments to their landlords. The detachment meant for the peasants overcoming serfdom , but it was also associated with high financial burdens. Therefore, the introduction of a right to redeem these feudal burdens did not mean the de facto redemption, as it had to be painstakingly bought with installments that sometimes lasted for decades.

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literature

  • Walter Achilles: German agricultural history in the age of reforms and industrialization . Ulmer, Stuttgart 1993, ISBN 3-8001-3090-4 , ( German agricultural history ).
  • Hermann Büchi: The tithe and basic interest payment in the canton of Solothurn . In: Jahrbuch für Solothurnische Geschichte 2, 1929, ISSN  0258-0683 , pp. 189-300, ( doi : 10.5169 / seals-322437 ).
  • Christof Dipper : The peasant liberation in Germany. 1790-1850 . Kohlhammer, Stuttgart et al. 1980, ISBN 3-17-005223-3 , ( Urban Pocket Books 298).