No sooner was the law of primogeniture abolished than fortunes began to diminish, and all the families of the country were simultaneously reduced to a state in which labor became necessary to procure the means of subsistence:
Oinordetza-legea abolitu zen momentutik, aberastasun guztiak urritzen hasi ziren aldi berean, eta bizi ahal izateko lana beharrezko gertatzen den egoerara hurbildu ziren familia guztiak mugimendu berberaz;