‘The bull is half the herd’: property ri
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Elaine S. Tan
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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Common fields reduced the transaction costs for commonersÕ cow keeping by lowering the cost of insemination. After enclosure, cow keeping fell among small owners who, unlike large farmers, could neither jointly own the bull and the cow nor lease the male easily. The minimum acreage required to resto