Del concejo al municipio: la propiedad comunal en la Navarra Moderna

Abstract

Prívate and communal properties were an important part of the municipal territory throughout the north of the peninsula during the Ancient Regime. But they stood out not so much because of their extensión but because of the benefits that could be extracted from them. In Navarre, it was necessary to be an inhabitant of the municipality to have the right to use them, and such a use was painstakingly regulated both by Laws from the Parliament (Cortes) and by more local limitations (cotos and paramentos). An analysis is made of the peculiar property regime they had and of the elements that contribute to the crisis of the system at the end of the Ancient Regime.