Land ownership and property registration played a special role in Italian colonialism, in which public and private interests mingled amidst the ambitions of colonising and economic exploitation. Through the legal system of land registration one can examine how European states, here in the context of Italy, used their colonies to adapt and experiment with the legal frameworks of land ownership. As will be shown in the article, what happened in the colonies might have been impossible to carry out in the European context. In the colonies the options varied between implementing a particular European land law used by a European state in its colonies, duly modified or updated, and a compromise between the already-existing land ownership structure and the European land law. The knowledge acquired by implementing different legal frameworks of landownership and land registration in the colonies conversely influenced the legal systems applied in continental Europe.

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土地法下的帝国技术：以意大利殖民地为例（19 和 20 世纪）

土地所有权和财产登记在意大利殖民主义中发挥了特殊作用，在殖民主义和经济剥削的野心中，公共和私人利益相互交织。通过土地登记的法律体系，人们可以考察欧洲国家（这里以意大利为背景）如何利用其殖民地来适应和试验土地所有权的法律框架。正如将在文章中展示的那样，在殖民地发生的事情在欧洲范围内可能无法实施。在殖民地，选择在实施欧洲国家在其殖民地使用的特定欧洲土地法（经过适当修改或更新）以及现有土地所有权结构与欧洲土地法之间的折衷之间有所不同。