GEOG 10 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Parliament Of Romania, Word Magazine, Legea
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It explores the issue of privatization of agriculture and property restitution in. It relates problems of decollectivization on how the land was dealt under socialism and examines the law on agricultural land resources in. "land doesn"t expand and it doesn"t contract; we"ll find your piece of it. " (judge in a court case over land) "it didn"t shrink, it stretched. " (two neighbors arguing over the boundary between their gardens) "the day will come when a man will go out into his field and not know where it begins or ends. " (biblical reference by villagers to the imminent end of the world) In february 1991 the romanian parliament passed a law for the restoration of land to its former owners. Known as law 18/1991, the law on agricultural land resources (legea fondului funciar) liquidated collective farms and returned their lands to the households that had given them over at collectivization (1959-1962). "
