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Tenure definition

What does Tenure mean? Tenure, in property practice, describes whether land is held as freehold or leasehold and the legal basis of that holding, indicating a fee simple estate (freehold) or a term of years (leasehold). In England & Wales and Northern Ireland, while grounded in the historic feudal relationship to the Crown, modern usage is descriptive and shown on the land register as freehold or leasehold; there is no single statutory definition. In Scotland, feudal tenure was abolished by the Abolition of Feudal Tenure etc. (Scotland) Act 2000 (in force 28 November 2004); practitioners speak of ownership (heritable property) or lease, and “tenure”...

Manorial rights in England and Wales: origins, identifying and registering rights, post-2013 protection, value and reform

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Practice notes

This Practice Note presents a summary of the position in respect of manorial rights, which encompass sporting rights, mineral rights, and the right to hold markets or fairs. It details the registration requirements applicable to these rights, and provides an account of how manorial rights may have arisen where land was formerly copyhold or became subject to an inclosure award.

Origins of manorial rights

They are remnants of the feudal system of land tenure.

They can still subsist today in relation to land that:

is former copyhold land, or
was inclosed pursuant to an inclosure award

Copyhold

Copyhold was a form of tenure that developed from medieval customary practice and existed alongside freehold and leasehold tenure.

It was held subject to certain manorial rights that could be exercised by the lord of the manor.

Copyhold was abolished by the Law of Property Act 1922 (LPA 1922).

A number of Copyhold Acts before 1925 had permitted voluntary enfranchisement of copyhold, and the Law of Property Act 1925 (LPA 1925) compulsorily enfranchised any remaining copyhold titles; in other words, in effect, the copyhold was converted to a freehold or leasehold title...

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