@article{oai:soar-ir.repo.nii.ac.jp:00017245, author = {三喜田, 熊蔵}, journal = {信州大學紀要}, month = {Jul}, note = {A key of the solving of this problem is in the interpretation of the famous passages of Julius Caesar's "De Bello gallico", ⅳ,1. and VI, 22, and Tacitus' germania C. 26. The jurists in the early nineteenth century advocated the agrarian-communism or Mark-association (Markgenossenschaft) theory from these passages. But I think private land ownership developed in German in the earliest period. The "agri" of Tacitus can hardly be identified with the Mark and can not be interpreted Tocitus, "universi" as Mark-Associate with commural laud-ownership. But there were unions of families and clans in German in the earliest time, and such unions were supported only by economic efforts. Such unions of families and clans performed co-cultivation of land and limited private ownership a little by reason of military object. But When the situation became peaceful and stable, they divided the land for number of cultivators (pro numero cultorum) and "secundum dignationem". So short passoge of Tacitus' germania C.26 explained the historical development of many hundreds years such as co-cultivation and dividion of land in German earliest time., Article, 信州大學紀要 (2): 1-9(1952)}, pages = {1--9}, title = {原始ゲルマン民族の農地制度に就て}, volume = {2}, year = {1952} }