Real word
In the Middle Ages and up to the early modern period , real word (also eight word , real work or similar) denoted a right to use common property, for example a right to wood , pasture or fishing. The term often appears in Low German and Westphalian documents, but also occurs in the wider area.
The term is closely related to branding . The number of real words of a farm determined the proportion of this farm that it was entitled to in the use of the brand, for example for acorn fattening of a certain number of pigs. In the county of Limburg they were used as a basis for assessing the division of brands in the 18th century . In Westphalia in Cologne , the term was more a phenomenon of the 13th and 14th centuries. There, the courtyards or cottages were later used as a basis for assessment.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Real word . In: Prussian Academy of Sciences (Hrsg.): German legal dictionary . tape 2 , Issue 8 (edited by Eberhard von Künßberg ). Hermann Böhlaus successor, Weimar, Sp. 1186–1188 ( adw.uni-heidelberg.de - publication date between 1933 and 1935).
- ^ Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm: Achtwort. In: German dictionary. ( woerterbuchnetz.de ).
- ^ Claudia Friske: sovereign forest sovereignty and aristocratic brand rule in the Westphalian county of Limburg. Legal claims and legal positions in the late Middle Ages and early modern times. Münster 2005 ( d-nb.info PDF; 1.9 MB).