Decree of 1917 on land.

The Decree establishes that: 1). Landlord property rights are abolished immediately without any compensation. 2). Landlord country property, as well as other appanage land, monastic land and ecclesiastical land with all agricultural implements, livestock, manor houses and equipment are transferred to the disposal of the Provincial Land Commissions and the District Soviets of Peasant Deputies till the settlement of the land issue by the Constituent Assembly. 3). Any damage to property subject to expropriation that from now on is decreed national property is considered grave offence punishable by the revolutionary court. District Soviets of Peasant Deputies must undertake all the necessary measures for the strict observance of the modalities of expropriation of landlord country property, for the determination of size ceilings and the plots of land subject to expropriation, for composition of the exact inventory of the property subject to expropriation and its revolutionary protection. 4). Plots of land belonging to ordinary peasants and ordinary Cossacks are not subject to expropriation.