 The law was notable among Romanian controlled territories as it expropriated land not only from the large landowners, but also from the peasants who gained land by "ad-hoc" divisions of the agricultural lands during the Russian Revolution.The reform was further marred by corruption and preferential allotment to Romanian state functionaries and officers, as well as to the deputies who voted for union with Romania in 1918 (the latter were allotted 50 hectares each).Under pressure from the large landowners in the original territories of Romania, the land reform required compensations to the former owners, in contrast with the earlier declarations of the "Sfatul Țării" which proposed expropriation of property or even socialization.