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26
Yüli
1873

The Warnier Law accelerates individualisation of Algerian land

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📅 26 Yüli 1873 📍 Algeria

The Warnier Law reorganised land tenure by imposing French legal categories and facilitating individual transactions. It weakened collective forms of landholding and increased the vulnerability of Algerian communities to fragmentation and transfer. The law’s consequences unfolded through administrative practice and subsequent legislation; it should be understood as part of a wider settler-colonial transformation of land, not as a neutral cadastral reform.

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Auguste Warnier

Algerian landholding communities

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French National Assembly

colonial administration