Tenures

Freehold tenure – in the feudal system it was the grant of an estate from the king to a tenant.

Leasehold tenure – the relationship between a landlord and a tenant in leasehold land

Feudal system - a political, economic, and social system under which only the monarch was able to own land outright

The statute Quia Emptores began dismantling the feudal system because it did not allow for subinfeudation (one owner to allocate district tenants on their land)

The doctrine is now limited but important as it  ‘is a doctrine which could not be overturned without fracturing the skeleton which gives our land law its shape and consistency’ Brennan J Mabo v Queensland 1992

Quia Emptores -is a statute passed that prevented tenants from alienating their lands to others by subinfeudation, instead requiring all tenants who wished to alienate their land to do so by substitution

Tenure Abolition Act 1660 - ‘An Act taking away the Court of Wards and Liveries and Tenures in Capite and by Knight's Service and Purveyance, and for settling a Revenue upon his Majesty in Lieu thereof’

Law of Property Act 1925 - ‘An Act to consolidate the enactments relating to conveyancing and the law of property in England and Wales’

TAA and LPA both helped to speed up the flattening of the feudal system pyramid