조선시대 토지소유권 관리체계의 변화실태와 그 성격 = The change of the managing system of the Landownership and its characteristics in the Choson dynasty

조선시대 토지대장과 토지문서를 통한 토지소유권 관리체계의 변화를 분석했다.

The land register in Choson, Yangan(量案) was not an account book in which ownership could be amended when it had been changed. The land document that the persons concerned drew up made a important part in proving the landownership. The landownership in Choson was systematically brought to completion by both the land register of government and private land document. Hence, as the landownership is consolidated, the land register and land document were changed with relation to each other. As recording way of land register has a tendency to be standardized nationally, the recording way in land document depended on land register increasingly in the late Choson dynasty.

This tendency is related to the great development of civil recogntion of landownership in the late Choson dynasty. After the Japanese invasion of 1592 the disputes of various landownerships were greatly increased. In this process, former land register and land document had much limit on proving the ownership. This tendency lasted after then, but the land register system was not improved greatly. The epochal improvement of land register system consolidated the protection of ownership, but the burden of bearing tax of landowners increased. Landowners, therefore, were not in favor of the improvement of land register system.