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The Crown owns parliament because it is in England. Nobody except the Crown can hold land in England. You can only own an interest in land (Freehold being one
by neilwilson 4y ago
The Crown owns parliament because it is in England.
Nobody except the Crown can hold land in England. You can only own an interest in land (Freehold being one of them). If the holder of any land dies intestate, then the land reverts to the Crown 'bona vacantia'.
The same would happen if Parliament ever dissolved itself as an institution.
Another little quirk of history.
- noja 4y ago> Nobody except the Crown can hold land in England. It sounds like someone made up another meaning of "own" and given it a different name ("hold") to making the "owning" less good. I can't imagine any situation where the Queen points at a piece of land and says "I'm having that" and people just accept it.
- EliRivers 4y agoIt sounds like someone made up another meaning of "own" In a lot of cases, "owning" is less good and using the word "own" to describe it is just misleading. Like how shareholders "own" a company. Funny kind of owning. "Owning" a field; it's not like you can take it home in the back of your car; it's not like owning a pair of shoes. The problem with words here isn't people making up another meaning of "own"; it's that "own" is used for a lot of cases where, frankly, people just don't "own" it.