1) Medieval law 
A Ganerbschaft (plural: Ganerbschaften in German), according to old German inheritance law, was a joint family estate, mainly land, over which the co-heirs (Ganerben) only had rights in common. In modern German legal parlance it corresponds to a `community of joint ownership` (Gesamthandsgemeinschaft or Gemeinschaft zur gesamten Hand). == Histor.....