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Add to that the Hungarian inheritance rules - properties were divided evenly between the heirs, so I can now own a 13/6240 of an agricultural field. The farm st
by tpm 5y ago
Add to that the Hungarian inheritance rules - properties were divided evenly between the heirs, so I can now own a 13/6240 of an agricultural field. The farm still pays me a small yearly dividend and offers to buy my share, but that's really everything what can be done with it.
- Aperocky 5y agoAre wills not respected? Usually wills try to leave (different) things in one owner.
- rini17 5y agoThey aren't widely used. Parents prefer to divide property between children by donating it while they are alive.
- jcranmer 5y agoHistorically, divisible estates were the norm in most of Europe in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. By the time the High Middle Ages rolls around, England and France switch to a system of primogeniture, granting all the lands to the oldest son. However, in Germany, divisibility remained the norm. This resulted in a tendency of lands in the Holy Roman Empire to proliferate as compared to France or England. I don't know any specifics about Hungary, but I presume that the general norm is as in Germany rather than England/France.