This clan vs. personal property concept is, culturally, quite different. I'm having a real hard time figuring out the line between personal and clan property.
I am formulating two interpretations and would appreciate feedback about which is preferred or if both of them are way off:
The stead can also use some of the fruits to buy personal property. For example, Grower Bahktian has decided that a sword would work better against the raiding scorpionmen than his current spade. He goes to the local market and barters some grains for a sword. The grain belonged to the stead, the stead agreed that he could use some of it as "his share", and he buys a sword, which becomes his.
2) THE FRUITS OF THE STEAD ARE CLAN PROPERTY The steadholders didn't have much to start out with and were given the oxen, sheep, and land--all of it clan property. The steadholders work on the stead. The fruits of the stead and their labor is also clan property. They use a portion of it to support and grow the stead, a portion of it to feed themselves, pay a portion of it to the church, and give the rest to the clan. Now, Grower Bahktian saw what the Scorpionmen did to his neighbors and wants to get a sword from the market. He plans to use the sword to protect himself and the stead--both of which provide a lot of stuff for the clan. He would also use the sword to defend other steads and other clanmembers if he needed to. Does he use the clan-owned grain to buy a sword which then belongs to the clan? And then, if the sword is clan-owned, how does anything ever become personal property? Why would you need personal property?
Mark
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