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tollgiiter). The income from this domanium was in 

 part liable to be applied to tbe expenses of the 

 court, of the administration, of the realm, as far 

 as possible alleviating the burdens of taxation. This 

 property arose from a variety of relations which have 

 been discussed at length in the foregoing chapters. It 

 was derived mainly from feudal properties, fiefs of 

 vassalage and fiefs of official position, secularized church 

 property and other forfeited property, division of mark 

 forests, to which were added the allodial possessions of 

 the family. Gradually, by agreement with the landed 

 estates, it was understood that this property could not be 

 disposed of or dissipated, and was inherited by the eldest 

 son together with the princely dignity, being an at- 

 tribute of his position in the state. In the reorganization 

 period of 1806 to 1815, many of the small princes lost 

 their seignorage (Landeshoheit ipso jure) and with the 

 loss of the princely dignity, the obligation of carrying 

 the expense of court and administration naturally fall- 

 ing away, these properties became in most cases purely 

 individual property of the former princes. 



Not, however, until the revolutionary movements of 

 1848 and even later was this divorce of the state idea 

 from that of the person of the prince everywhere accom- 

 plished, nor was it carried through without many bicker- 

 ings and quarrels between the princes and the repre- 

 sentatives of the people, who claimed this domanium 

 for the state. In the larger states all this domanial prop- 

 erty was finally declared state lands, while in the smaller 

 principalities a partition of the land between the princes 

 and the state took place or else a relation was established 

 by which a part of the revenue resulting from the state 

 lands was secured to the princes. 



