Mastership right

In the 19th century, fattening law referred to the legal right to drive cattle , mostly pigs , to fattening or pasture in forests. In principle, the owner of the forest had this right. However, it could also be sold or awarded separately. In the forest, for example, the domestic pigs ate beechnuts or acorns . The fattening right was part of the grazing right . The right to masters existed from the Middle Ages to modern times . In the general land law for the Prussian states it was regulated in paragraph 69.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Textbook of General Land Law , L. Schröder, Berlin 1840, p. 93.