The second institution was the tenure called emphyteusis, under which land, the domain of the Crown (and other land as well, but especially land under the domain of the Crown), was granted, not on absolute ownership, but in tenancy for certain fixed dues, and once so granted was granted permanently. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Morally speaking their confinement may have been a humiliation; in sober fact it was an immense advantage; moreover, a special law of 'emphyteusis' made the leases of their homes inalienable, so long as they paid rent, and forbade the raising of the rent under any circumstances, while leaving the tenant absolute freedom to alter and improve his house as he would, together with the right to sublet it, or to sell the lease itself to any other ❋ Unknown (1881)
These abuses remained without material change until 1832, and thus you have a complete history of emphyteusis from the first to the last day of its institution in Portugal. ❋ Various (N/A)
The origin of this evil state of affairs was the tenure of emphyteusis: its active and unfeeling promoters have been always the nobility and ecclesiastics, and its only powerful enemy, the only hope of the people, the Crown. ❋ Various (N/A)
They then leased it on emphyteusis, either to the original occupiers, to their own soldiers, or to settlers ❋ Various (N/A)
After the Western Empire had apparently fallen beneath the Northern arms -- that is to say, five hundred years later -- and not until then, the Roman Code ameliorated the baneful tenure of emphyteusis. ❋ Various (N/A)
These conquests all occurred within the space of fifty-seven years (from 190 to 133 B.C.), and this was doubtless the period when emphyteusis was first employed upon an extensive scale. ❋ Various (N/A)
A law of the emperor Zenos (A.D. 474-491) fixed whatever had theretofore been uncertain in the nature and incidents of emphyteusis. ❋ Various (N/A)
With equal truth it may be said that the solution of Portuguese history lies in the subject of _emphyteusis_. ❋ Various (N/A)
Nothing less than the re-enactment of the odious Roman tenure of emphyteusis, and that in its most ancient and worst form -- liability to increased rent and to eviction; not only this, but with certain base services combined. ❋ Various (N/A)
Whether emphyteusis in any form remained is not quite certain, but it seems not; and during this government, and the Moorish one which superseded it in the year 711, the Iberian Peninsula enjoyed an interval of prosperity to which it had been a stranger for ages. ❋ Various (N/A)
After twenty-seven years of reforms and prosperity Pombal was dismissed from office and the old abuses were reinstated, among them those worst incidents of emphyteusis which had been devised by the base ring of nobles and ecclesiastics who held the land in their grasp. ❋ Various (N/A)
What growth of forest trees had followed the abolition of emphyteusis under the Gothic and Saracenic monarchs was destroyed under the government of Christian nobles, and to-day there is scarcely a tree in Portugal -- the woods, including fruit and nut trees, covering less than 400,000 out of 22,000,000 acres, the entire area of the country. ❋ Various (N/A)
In the military tenures of feudalism, it has been attempted to trace the idea of two distinct ownerships, the dominium eminens and the dominium vulgare, to the Roman contract of emphyteusis. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
Robert Louis Stevenson accordingly began to read for the bar, supplementing his uncoördinated notions of emphyteusis and levitation with detached impressions of the civil law and fraudulent conveyances. ❋ Unknown (1913)
Similar to emphyteusis was the right of superficies; but as it applied only to the surface — that is, to buildings — it was less permanent. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)
The mysteries of _emphyteusis, emphyteuma, _ and _emphyteuta_ were still hidden to her, though her steward spoke of them with surprising loquacity and fluency. ❋ Unknown (1881)
It is on this principle that the Romans established their _emphyteusis_, or fee-farm. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
The government would therefore take legal action to revoke the emphyteusis. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Speaking in a Radio 101 interview, Dr Azzopardi said the historic building had in 1979 been transferred by a Labour government to the Labour Party on perpetual emphyteusis as part of a deal for an exchange of properties when the government took over the former Freedom Press in Marsa to use for Malta Shipbuilding. ❋ Unknown (2010)
