cheptel

Updated: May 2, 2025

That the shares were ordinarily equal may be conjectured from the analogy of the French -bail a cheptel- and the similar Italian system of half-and-half leases, as well as from the absence of all trace of any other scheme of partition. It was only where the vine was trained on living trees that corn was cultivated in the intervals between them.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome (Volumes 1-5)

That the shares were ordinarily equal may be conjectured from the analogy of the French -bail a cheptel- and the similar Italian system of half-and-half leases, as well as from the absence of all trace of any other scheme of partition. It was only where the vine was trained on living trees that corn was cultivated in the intervals between them.

Theodor Mommsen - The History of Rome, Book III : From the Union of Italy to the Subjugation of Carthage and the Greek States