Tanto and Retracto rights: “Unfolded” and “full” domain in the Cachapoal River Valley, Chile (first half of the 19th Century)
The article analyzes the judicial use of two preferential purchase rights: tanto and retracto. Both, used by small and medium farmers to maintain or improve land rights in a Chilean agricultural setting during the first half of the 19th century. It investigates the crisis of pacts for the sharing po...
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Grupo Prohistoria
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://ojs.rosario-conicet.gov.ar/index.php/prohistoria/article/view/1831 |
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| Sumario: | The article analyzes the judicial use of two preferential purchase rights: tanto and retracto. Both, used by small and medium farmers to maintain or improve land rights in a Chilean agricultural setting during the first half of the 19th century. It investigates the crisis of pacts for the sharing possession, pressured by the advance of institutions and interests linked to the paradigm of full domain. The review of lawsuits and sales contracts confirmed that the appeal to both figures was intended, on the one hand, to keep the old possessory agreements and, on the other, to concentrate domain rights. |
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