从赡养协议看英国土地继承中的市场化导向

Marketing Trend in Land Inheritance of England as revealed by Supporting Agreement

英国是西欧诸国中较早走上农业市场化道路的国家之一,这与英国农民土地继承习惯有一定关系。中世纪的英国以不可分割的单子继承习惯为主。当儿子继承家庭的土地后,要与退出生产领域的家长达成一项"赡养协议"。继承人因继承土地而承担的赡养费用和他在市场上买得同样数量的土地所支出的费用基本相当。这说明,在中世纪,英国农民家庭内部的土地转让在很大程度上体现了市场行为。

The medieval England was one of the European countries whose agriculture appeared marketing trend early. It had the relation with the most common form of inheritance. When a son received all of his family land, he would conclude supporting agreement with his parents. The cost of land he had inherited was almost the same as he bought the same amount of land in market. Thus, land transfer within family was market-oriented, which made the land become commodity in market in the late Middle Ages.