#Belgium

The Court of Cassation ruled on 24 January 2025 that the extension of an existing usufruct agreement does not constitute a new transfer of rights and therefore does not trigger the payment of the sales tax (verkooprecht).

#usufruit #vruchtgebruik #intifahakkı #usufruct

Text clipping saying: Even then, your freedom of movement is regulated by economic and social controls. The right of trespass did not make it across the Atlantic, nor did what the medieval lawyers called usufruct: the right to use the property of another without damaging it. But there are ways to hack our labyrinth of fences and other zones of exclusion. You can learn to do so by following the animals, by infiltrating the land with an understanding of its elaborate overlay of legal rights and their limits, and by learning from the people who have to find a little corner of the labyrinth where they can shelter without paying for the right to do so. The system we live under is not really so different from the one the peasants of medieval England did. The main difference is our tenure is mediated by money.

Cover of book “A Natural History of Empty Lots”

“what the medieval lawyers called #usufruct: the right to use the property of another without damaging it”

Mind blown, thanks to @christopherbrown.bsky.social

a great introduction and guide to library socialism by @srslywrong.bsky.social and how to integrate it’s ideas in your own community

#usufruct #directdemocracy #utopia #leftist #progressive #politics #liquiddemocracy #socialecology #bookchin #communalism

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