Both landowners and tenants could be a pensioner. Much was dependent on whether the tenant approved the ''aftægtskontract''. One could make an oral agreement, but a pensioner could also get a written contract for security if later there was a disagreement. If one ceded a piece of land to a daughter and son-in-law, one could not be sure if the son-in-law remarried, whether the new wife would be willing to meet the previous contract. | Both landowners and tenants could be a pensioner. Much was dependent on whether the tenant approved the ''aftægtskontract''. One could make an oral agreement, but a pensioner could also get a written contract for security if later there was a disagreement. If one ceded a piece of land to a daughter and son-in-law, one could not be sure if the son-in-law remarried, whether the new wife would be willing to meet the previous contract. |