Los contratos de cesión de tierra en Extremadura en el primer tercio del siglo XX

Using the exceptional archives of the jurados mixtos de la propiedad from the judicial district of Caceres, this article shows the importance of the changes to tenancy contracts in Spain during the 1930s. First, the decree led to a huge volume of documentation on demands between landowners and tenants for rent reduction. Second, the source shows the legal complexity of some contracts, and the occasional difficulties that this created for determining which tenant should benefit from the decree. Third, one of the most interesting dimensions of the source is the widespread use of subletting, often by groups of local workers signing collective contracts. Finally, we use the information provided by the jurados mixtos to shed more light on the censo de campesinos [peasant census], and in particular on the figure of the yuntero [landless peasants].