Abstract

SAMUDIO A., Edda O.. From communal property to individual property in the republican agrarianscenario of Venezuela: The case study of Timotes, Merida. Mundo agr. [online]. 2012, vol.13, n.25, pp.00-00. ISSN 1515-5994.

We dealed with here the long process events experienced by indigenous the communal property in Venezuela from its origins in century XVI, the anticorporative policy of the Borbones, to its extinction or suppression, when institutionalizing the individual property in Venezuela in century XIX, by referring particular to the Venezuelan Mérida. The analysis includes/understands the factors that took part in their progressive deterioration, propiciadores of the application of the legislation that determined its liquidation to culminate a stage of the individual dilemma versus community that characterized the agrarian policy of century XIX.

Keywords : Mérida; Venezuela; Defenses; Communal property; Rights; Usufructo; Indigenous communities; Towns of Indians.