Village Community
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Dissertations on Early Law and Custom
A traditional communal land-holding institution, noted as nearly disappeared in Bengal Proper.
In the populous province of Bengal Proper, also noticeable for the nearly total disappearance of the Village Community, cognates are largely admitted to succeed, and sometimes in preference to agnates.
On the other hand, in India, the Joint Family and the Village Community are often found side by side, sometimes indeed bound together by complex common relations.
If we take a survey of the Slavonian usages as a whole we shall have little doubt that the natural development of the House Community would be into the Village Community.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
A combination of patriarchal families forming the next level of primitive social organisation above the Family.
If, leaving the Family, we pass on to the group which stands next above it in the primitive organisation of society—that combination of families, in a larger aggregate, for which at present I have no better name than Village Community—we find it impossible to understand the extant examples of it, unless we recognise that, in the infancy of ideas, legislative, judicial, executive, and administrativ …