[/atlas/casa/Senar-emazte-zaharrak-eta-gazteak-matrimonios-mayor-y-joven-Areatza-principios-del-siglo-20.jpg|Old and young husband and wife. Areatza (B), beginning of the 20th century. Source: Rubén de Las Hayas’ private archive.|The aim was to ensure that the family wealth, taken to be the farmstead and its belongings, would be passed on in full or only slightly diminished, and improved if possible, from parents to their offspring.||]