In 1751, the government had to issue an explicit decree in regard to the breaking up of peasant holdings in Bohemia. The law was to the effect that if a holding was divided by the manorial lord, each of its parts could not be burdened with more than its portion, in correspondence with its size, of the socage that adhered

QUESTION: Why did the government intervene in 1751? What economic or social pressures prompted this decree about peasant holdings?

Georg Simmel, The Sociology of Georg Simm…, loc. 4529