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Neither the "teepan-tlalli" nor the "tlatoca-tlalli," still less the "calpulalli," show any trace of individual ownership. It is also called "tlalli," but that is the general name for soil or ground. "Tierras o eredades de particulares, juntas an alguna vega," is called "tlalmilli". This decomposes into "tlalli" soil and "milli."
Still the evidence on this point is too indefinite to warrant such an assumption. While the crops raised on the 'teepan-tlalli, as well as on the 'tlatoca-tlalli, were consumed exclusively by the official houses and households of the tribe, the soil itself which produced these crops was neither claimed nor possessed by the chiefs themselves or their descendants.
They were tilled in common by special families who resided on them, using the crops in compensation for the work they performed on the official buildings. "The second class was called 'tlatoca-tlalli, land of the speakers. Of these there was but one tract in each tribe, which was to be 'four hundred of their measures long on each side, each measure being equal to three Castilian rods." III, cap.
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