ADMS 2610 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Adverse Possession, Crown Estate, Concurrent Estate
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Land and anything permanently attached to it. Common law includes buildings, minerals or anything else below the surface, and the air space above. A chattel that is constructively or permanently attached to land. Land was held as long as the holder of the land complied with a promise to provide the necessary armed men or services in support of the crown. If holder failed, land would revert (escheat) back to the crown. Crown always retained ownership, use to another. A method of holding land granted by the crown. Estates held were either free or unfree. Freeholds had fixed services attached to them. An estate in land that represents the greatest interest in land that a person may possess, and that may be conveyed, or passed by will to another, or that on an intesta(cid:272)(cid:455) (cid:449)ould de(cid:448)ol(cid:448)e to the person"s heirs. 1660 legislation eliminating personal-servitude feudal rights but the system of landholding remained.