EVENT INFORMATION

22
April
1863

The Senatus-Consulte reorganises Algerian land tenure

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📅 22 April 1863 📍 Algeria

The Senatus-Consulte of 22 April 1863 initiated a major programme to delimit and register land in Algeria. It nominally recognised some collective property while requiring territorial boundaries to be fixed through colonial administration. These measures made land legible to the colonial state and laid groundwork for later fragmentation and transfer. The law’s stated recognition of communal property must be read alongside the coercive surveying and reclassification that accompanied it.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Algerian landholding communities

French administrators

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

French Senate

colonial administration