Compulsory purchase in the earlier Middle Ages
Susan Reynolds
The procedure that the British call compulsory purchase, though it is really sale, and Americans 'eminent domain', also a slightly misleading name, in civil-law tradition simply 'expropriation', or an equivalent word (espropriazione, Enteignung, etc.). This chapter argues immanent sense of common good may have allowed both rulers local communities to take land from individuals for sake even before Carolingians outside kingdoms Franks Anglo-Saxons. most striking example early Middle Ages what looks like modified form expropriation has traditionally been seen as plundering, spoliation secularization Church by Charles Martel his descendants, Carolingian kings emperors.
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