Normally these rights could not be made hereditary. There was common ground for grazing and wood-cutting but any ostentatious show of private property usage was frowned upon. The community was encouraged to help one another in providing a house for a newly married couple for example, just as such cooperation was part of our own pioneering days. The market provided tax revenue but the moneylenders and vendors with poor quality merchandise were to be expelled on discovery. The system is effectively the same today but we do it with inheritance taxes, zoning regulations, building permits and disability disbursements.
Nobody owns their land today anymore than they did then.
Only the intervening two thousand years of privatization based on might as right can be called free-held, a meaning that is now very different from that meant by the application of Fasta s laws. She meant to develop a sense of obligation to one s community instead of the booty of individualism that followed. Fasta s laws over the next few earth mothers grew to be the code of Europe and were inscribed on every citadel. The final grouping of this section follows but has a curious introduction because the homeland of the Finda people is also called Aldland. Among the Pacific Islanders, the name Hawaiki refers to the old land for many different islands.