ABSTRACT
Land to the ‘pure’ peasant communities of Yugoslavia, as to, similar communities elsewhere, had not been looked upon as a marketable commodity. Where land-tenure was held on a feudal basis, there could naturally be no question of the occupant having the right to sell. In non-feudal areas, the conception of the zadruga was based upon a permanent relationship between the land and the cultivating household, and peasants believed that their traditional rights constituted a perfectly valid title. But as more and more of the countryside came within the sphere of influence of the towns, other more legalistic points of view were coming to prevail, and tended to cause friction within the peasant community itself and between townsmen and peasants.
