Custom, Land and Livelihood in Rural South China: The Traditional Land Law of Hong Kong's New Territories, 1750–1950

Contents

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction: The Traditional New Territories, Land and Society Part 1 The Imperial and Customary Land Laws: An Overview 1. The Imperial Land Law 2. The Customary Land Law 3. Registration for the Land Tax and the Collection of Land Tax Part 2 The Customary Land Law and Transactions in Land 4. Arable Land: Family Holdings, Trusts and Clan Holdings 5. Restraints on Transactions in Land 6. The Next Heir 7. The Middleman and the Role of the Community in Land Transactions 8. Temporary and Reversible Alienations: Mortgages and Leases 9. Land Deeds and the Japanese Occupation, 1941–1945 10. An Afterview Part 3 Customary Land Deeds Introduction Pre-British Period Deeds (Deeds 1–68) Early British Period (1901–1941) Deeds (Deeds 69–82) Japanese Period (1941–1945) Deeds (Deeds 83–94) Post-War (1945–1975) Deeds (Deeds 95–100) Other and Miscellaneous Deeds and Documents (Deeds 101–119) Appendix: A Note on Measures Notes Bibliography Contents ix 1 25 39 71 97 117 135 143 159 171 177 185 195 323 343 357 365 401 409 459 viii Contents Indexes General Index Index of Persons Index of Places 467 479 499 ...