“…According toBoudjaaba (2011), in the Norman regime, where a system of egalitarian inheritance was prevalent, the practice of marriage contracts was also widespread in all social strata.7 It has also its Italian counterpart: the "Catastro", which has led to inequality measurements as well(Alfani and Ammannatti, 2017).8 The only year in which we have a considerable amount of cadastral data is 1795, and it is an exceptional document hastily drawn up in the context of war. See below.…”