The territorial base unit of medieval agriculture was the rotation (‘nyomás’). The plots were scattered around the settlement in several different patches. Consolidation is the process in which farmers' scattered plots of small pieces are merged and each owner receives his land as one contiguous area. The consolidation began after the enactment of the laws of 1836, in parallel with the abolition of lordships. However, in most places, the consolidation took place in the second half of the 19th century and around the turn of the century.