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Emphyteusis

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Emphyteusis 

in a number of ancient states, including Hellenistic Egypt, Greece, and Rome, a type of long-term lease of tracts of land. The emphyteusis gave the lessee the right to use the land productively and harvest crops, to transfer the land through inheritance, to mortgage the land, and, under certain conditions, to give it away or sell it. The lessee was required to pay the owner an annual rent that had been set in advance and to pay state taxes. The tracts that were leased in this manner were usually uncultivated lands that belonged to the emperor, the state treasury, or a community.

The concept of the emphyteusis was applied in a modified form in Byzantium and a number of feudal states in Western Europe (seeHEREDITARY FEUDAL LEASE).
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Florez relied on Locke and the Spanish liberal tradition and made liberal statements on a number of topics, from trade, production, public debt, and paper money to press and religious freedom, but he did not support all private property, recommending emphyteusis in land and stating that land is not legitimate property (emphyteusis is a prolonged or even perpetual fight to a landed estate that belongs to another).
Alvaro Florez Estrada: compromised liberalism in nineteenth-century ... by Braun, Carlos Rodriguez / Independent Review
Instead, she leveraged her capital by spending it to reclaim property received in the form of donations or, in some cases, in emphyteusis.
Lucrezia Borgia as entrepreneur by Ghirardo, Diane Yvonne / Renaissance Quarterly
Where others have regarded emphyteusis as merely another form of seigneurial exploitation, Aventin shows how accumulating leases and then subleasing them out was used by peasants to set themselves up in effect as small-scale landlords.
La societat rural a Catalunya en temps feudals: Valles Oriental, ... by Freedman, Paul / Journal of Social History
 
 
 
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