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Not sure about the equivalent Italian law, but I would be deeply surprised if there isn't something similar.
and this belongs here because...?
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and this belongs here because...?
That's pretty much the only reason one needs.
I was interested enough to read the article and you were interested enough,albeit in a negative sense, to add your comment; so it seems they were right.
A similar feudal tax was still levied in part of the Netherlands until 2014. [0] [0] https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dertiende_penning
I would hope something similar would apply in Italy too.
Maybe they should apply to the king of Italy for relief, since it is from his divine right to all the land that the fief is granted to his vassals.
Here's an example of how the elections for Doxe de Venezia worked in the Republic of Venice[0]:
> Thirty members of the Great Council, chosen by lot, were reduced by lot to nine; the nine chose forty and the forty were reduced by lot to twelve, who chose twenty-five. The twenty-five were reduced by lot to nine, and the nine elected forty-five. These forty-five were once more reduced by lot to eleven, and the eleven finally chose the forty-one who elected the doge. Election required at least twenty-five votes out of forty-one, nine votes out of eleven or twelve, or seven votes out of nine electors.
In the UK, during the purchase of our house we had to take a "chancel liability insurance", because our freehold once belonced to a rectory, so to protect ourselves from repair liability towards a chapel that has been here for centuries, we had to pay a one-off insurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel_repair_liability Leftover laws are weird things. EDIT: PS: sadly, the legendary, obligatory archery practice…
Now wondering which European countries still have intact feudal law. Scotland abolished feudal tenure in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc... ; most of the feu burdens were abolished or explicitly ported across. England&Wales still retains the feudal system in places and occasionally people are hit by "chancel repair liability" or somesuch. The chivalric court still exists: https://en…
Also, in some of the Channel Islands, Queen Elizabeth isn't technically the Queen, but rather the Duke of Normandy (despite being female, she's called the "Duke", or "The Queen, our Duke").
Now wondering which European countries still have intact feudal law. Scotland abolished feudal tenure in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc... ; most of the feu burdens were abolished or explicitly ported across. England&Wales still retains the feudal system in places and occasionally people are hit by "chancel repair liability" or somesuch. The chivalric court still exists: https://en…
Now wondering which European countries still have intact feudal law. Scotland abolished feudal tenure in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc... ; most of the feu burdens were abolished or explicitly ported across. England&Wales still retains the feudal system in places and occasionally people are hit by "chancel repair liability" or somesuch. The chivalric court still exists: https://en…
There are some vestiges of "udal" land law that are still valid in the Shetland and Orkney Islands. This comes down from Norse law (the Norse controlled those islands for long periods of time). A major difference is that under the law in the rest of the UK a coastal landowner only owns the land down to the high tide line, while under udal law the landowner owns the land down to the low tide line. This obviously has i…
> Today, the Queen still has ownership of all swans in the UK except in one small corner of the British Isles - the Orkney Isles.
> Under Udal Law, the ancient Norse system of inheritance and law, which the Viking settlers brought to Orkney, the swan is the property of the people, rather than the Crown.
> The case was proven in 1910 by a Kirkwall lawyer who, accompanied by his friend, the Procurator-Fiscal, went out to Harray Loch and shot a swan. The case went to the High Court and the Crown lost.
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20160725172726/http://www.scotsm...