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They’re going to really get excited when they realise the crown estate is actually the whole of England and Wales (less the duchy of Cornwall iirc). The bit th
by neilwilson 5y ago
They’re going to really get excited when they realise the crown estate is actually the whole of England and Wales (less the duchy of Cornwall iirc).
The bit they are talking about is the residual that hasn’t had a “freehold” tenancy granted to some other person.
You can’t hold land in England and Wales. The Crown owns it all. All you can hold is a heritable interest in land - an interest that returns to the Crown if you die Bono Vacantia.
- martinflack 5y agoI believe you're describing the sovereign holding "allodial title", which is (mostly) true in all jurisdictions deriving from English common law, including, for example, the US States (well, 49 of them), so it's not a practice constrained to England and Wales, or to monarchy. (But IANAL.) I think some US States had a feature where you could pay a fixed amount to satisfy all future property taxes, but I don't believe it relieved the possibility of eminent domain, escheat, or police power.