Note 234 — Chapter IV · AGRICULTURAL TRIBES.

Inama-Sternegg does not quite agree with this view of Lamprecht’s. Even where the rent was higher than the former customary payment, he says, the leaseholder was free from the labour dues and additional payments to which the villein had been bound, so the transition from fixed payment to rent did not always mean an enhancement of the obligation of the peasant234. Yet this writer too states that the leasing of land became more and more frequent. There were free contracts between proprietor and tenant, which did not interfere with the personal liberty of the latter; even non-fulfilment of his obligations by the tenant had only pecuniary consequences235.