South Tyrol’s Special Status in Civil Law: the ‘Entailed Farm’’ and the ‘Grundbuch’ Systems

The closed farm is a special feature of South Tyrol autonomy and it is a heritage of old German private Law, which gives priority to the collective dimensions of the goods rather than to the individual right of property. The system is the following: it is the first born of a familly who inherits the farm. He will have to give ba compensation to the brothers. The aim is to maintain the unity of vthe farm in a difficult mountain environment where agriculture, farming and cattling is very difficult.