Control del dominio util y salvaguarda del directo en la enfiteusis señorial valenciana: Los Cabreves

Abstract

Control of the useful property and safe of the direct property in the Valencian noble enfiteusis: the cabreves. At the end of the ancient régime, «feuda» areas composed three fourths of the Valencian territory. The ancestral element was, in its extent, bechind the jurisdictional element, and still further behind the whole of the established territory, since there was a distinction between tax-free and texed territory. However, this distinction refers to rhe importance and high frequency of the emphytcusical census, a legal of exploitation which was common in the Valencian arable properties. Except in particular cases, the domain institution was in perpetuily and irredeemable, with serious risks of loss even, extinction, if transfers of ownership were not controlled and monitored through cabrevación. This term refers to a formal act of emphyteuticary acknowledgment by which the assests in the census were directly subject to the property. These assests were described in detail in order to prevent false claims and concealments. That is why the resulting books are so interesting for the study of agrarian property of that time.