英国是西欧诸国中较早走上农业市场化道路的国家之一,这与英国农民土地继承习惯有一定关系。中世纪的英国以不可分割的单子继承习惯为主。当儿子继承家庭的土地后,要与退出生产领域的家长达成一项“赡养协议”。继承人因继承土地而承担的赡养费用和他在市场上买得同样数量的土地所支出的费用基本相当。这说明,在中世纪,英国农民家庭内部的土地转让在很大程度上体现了市场行为。 Britain is one of the countries that embarked on the path of agricultural marketization earlier in Western Europe, which is related to the inheritance of land by British peasants. Medieval Britain inherited the habit of indivisible list. When the son inherits the land of the family, he must reach a “maintenance agreement” with the parent who withdraws from the field of production. The cost of alimony incurred by the successor for inheritance is substantially the same as the cost of land he bought in the market for the same amount of land. This shows that in the Middle Ages, the transfer of land within British peasant families largely reflected market behavior.