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tullgiiter). The income from this domanium was in 
part liable to be applied to the 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 ele a relation was established 
by which a part of the revenue resulting from the state 
lands was secured to the princes. 
