In 1829 a decree required miry on State lands henceforth to carry out a general egalitarian repartition (chernyi peredel) following each new tax assessment or `revision'.
After this time the law no longer required repartition, but by then it had become absorbed into peasant culture as a streak of egalitarianism.
[1][2] A law of 1893 sought to restrict repartition to every twelfth year, i.e. every four crop rotations under the traditional `three-field', i.e. three-course, crop-rotation.
(Thus a man was compelled to marry to obtain a work-partner, not only to cope with agricultural work, but to fulfil his fiscal obligations as well.)
The fields were broken up into blocks (yarusy) and strips made as nearly equal as possible with respect to quality (fertility, evenless of land etc.