Land Tenure, Geography and Ecology in the Contact of Cultures

Abstract

But if it so be that the multitude throughtout the whole ll and passe and rxcede the ew numbre, then they cbeune out of every citie certeyn cytezens, and buylde vp a towne vnder their owne lawrs in the mexte lande where the inbabitauntes haue nuchs waste and vnoccupied grounde, receaminge also of the imbebitauntes to them, if they wil joyne and dwel with thems.… But if the inbabitauntes of that lande wyll not dwell xitb them, to be ordered by their lawes, then they dryue them out of those boundes, which they have limited and apointed out for them, selues.… For they connte this the most just cause of warre, when any people holdeth a piece of grounde woyde and vacant to no good not profitable vse, keepyng other from the vse and possession of it, whiche notwithstandung by the lawe of mature ought thereof to be nowryshed and relitued. 1