tierras de propios

English translation: municipal land

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Spanish term or phrase:tierras de propios
English translation:municipal land
Entered by: Charles Davis

18:44 Mar 22, 2018
Spanish to English translations [PRO]
Social Sciences - History / the conquest - encomiendas
Spanish term or phrase: tierras de propios
En las cartas pueblas quedaba claramente definido el uso de tal área rural: las estancias que debían repartirse entre los vecinos de la ciudad para su uso privado, las tierras de propios que debían ser arrendadas para producir recursos al consejo, y los bienes comunes: aguas, montes, ejidos y dehesas, que debían ser usados libremente por los vecinos de la ciudad bajo regulación del concejo
pistacho
Colombia
municipal / community land
Explanation:
"Propios" is a technical historical term in Spain and its former empire and refers to the property owned by a city, town or village: i.e., the municipality. It was property administered by the local council. So it was actually publicly rather than privately owned.

"Proprios
Usado regularmente en plural, se toma por las heredades, dehesas, casas u otro qualquier género de hacienda que tiene alguna Ciudad, Villa, o Lugar, para los gastos públicos."
Diccionario de autoridades (first Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary, 1737).

"Propios are the Revenues of Towns, or Communities."
John Stevens, A New Spanish and English Dictionary (1706)

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4 +5municipal / community land
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4municipal land or civic land
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municipal / community land


Explanation:
"Propios" is a technical historical term in Spain and its former empire and refers to the property owned by a city, town or village: i.e., the municipality. It was property administered by the local council. So it was actually publicly rather than privately owned.

"Proprios
Usado regularmente en plural, se toma por las heredades, dehesas, casas u otro qualquier género de hacienda que tiene alguna Ciudad, Villa, o Lugar, para los gastos públicos."
Diccionario de autoridades (first Spanish Royal Academy Dictionary, 1737).

"Propios are the Revenues of Towns, or Communities."
John Stevens, A New Spanish and English Dictionary (1706)

Dictionaries consulted through this portal:
http://ntlle.rae.es/ntlle/SrvltGUIMenuNtlle?cmd=Lema&sec=1.3...

Charles Davis
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agree  lorenab23: Agree with municipal. My apologies Charles, your answer wasn't visible yet when I posted in discussion section. Un abrazo!//wouldn't use community, it could be confused with "los comunes"
2 mins
  -> Many thanks, Lorena :-) No apology called for! // I see what you mean, though that would be "common land" in English. In principle the "propios" belonged to all the "vecinos". However, "municipal" does make it unequivocal. Un abrazo!

agree  patinba: Sorry Charles, you posted in the time I was typing the description, which I will leave for reference sake.
12 mins
  -> Thanks, Pat! No problem :-)

agree  Marie Wilson: https://books.google.es/books?id=iZUGYOoIiscC&pg=PA337&lpg=P...
15 mins
  -> Thanks, Marie :-) Interesting reference, which shows that "propios" did, in a sense, belong to the community. But I do think Lorena is right and that "municipal" is the right word here.

agree  Robert Carter: Good work, all of you! So, descriptively, might we also call it municipal revenue-producing land? Bit of mouthful, I suppose.
33 mins
  -> Thanks, Robert :-) I don't think tierras de propios necessarily produced revenue, though in principle they certainly could. They also provided amenities. / Though come to think of it, all the uses of them I've seen did produce "renta".

agree  neilmac: It still seems an oddly confusing term... Handy to know for future ref.
1 hr
  -> Thanks, Neil :-) Yes, it does a bit if you're not used to it. Not exactly an everyday term these days.
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municipal land or civic land


Explanation:
Lorena is as usual spot on.

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by CG García - ‎1986 - ‎Cited by 4 - ‎Related articles
las Rentas Municipales en el Antiguo Régimen: La Contaduria General de Propios y Arbitrios. (1760-1824)» .... I son los reglamentos de ingresos y gastos que el Consejo de Castilla formó a cada uno de estos tres municipios en ... pio, los llamados bienes de propios, término polivalente que como veremos ser- vía para ..
Los ayuntamientos para afrontar estos gastos contaban con ingresos de muy diversa índole. En lineas generales podemos clasificar estos ingresos en nueve grandes grupos:

A) Los procedentes de la explotación de los bienes patrimoniales del municipio, los llamados bienes de propios .... los propios considerados en sentido restrictivo eran aquella parte del patrimonio municipal, ya se tratase de predios rústico (viñas, huertas....) o establecimientos urbanos(molinos, hornos....) o incluso casas o solares que reportaban renta a los municipios


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