조선후기 土地賣買明文 背面의 기재유형

Abstract

This is a study of the preservation and management of the 601 endorsed contracts among the 2,300 land trade contracts of the later Joseon collected by Chonbuk National University Museum. There remain endorsements on the back of the contracts which contract collectors wrote to keep them efficiently. The endorsements contain more details other than the basic information written on the contract. The types, contents, and the positions of the endorsements have been examined to find out how the collectors used and preserved the back sides of the contracts. The types of endorsements, which are written on the back of land contracts, are divided largely into two types, which are closely related to their folding ways. Contracts folded straightly are classified as the 'A' type, which basically have the addresses, sizes, and categories of the properties. Actually, this contains the brief summary of the contracts. Meanwhile, contracts folded diagonally are classified as the type 'B', which have more information other than the brief summary, including all the related things and persons such as the real estate agent, haggling, the advisor's name who recommended the conditional purchase, brokerage, farmer's name who actually farmed in that land, and tax money the owner had to pay each year. Most of the agents in the documents were farmers. The commission wasn't their prior aim. They were the farmers, so their aim was to rent the land to farm or to be the landowner's agent. In addition, the commission was not relevant to the prices or sizes of the land. To make it short, the type 'B' is to make up for details which couldn't be written on the contract. Besides these two types, there were two more types; one is to put wrappers around the contracts, and the other type is to bind the contract with paper cords. Through this study, more concrete aspects of land trade in Gurye, Namwon, Dongbok Hyeons of Jeolla-do in the later Joseon could be examined. As a writer of this paper, I'd like to emphasize the fact that it is necessary to pay more attention to the endorsements or small memos even on the contract which could be easily ignored. I think more careful access is needed as well when the documents are taped, photographed, or restored.