Making property productive: reorganizing rights to real and equitable estates in Britain, 1660-1830

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1 April 2009

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Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in European Review of Economic History

Vol. 13 (1) , 3-30
DOI:10.1017/s1361491609002433

Abstract

Between 1660 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of Acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate Acts enabled individuals a

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