Baronage-Phase
Well-Known Member
In a written response to a question by Andrew George MP in February 2009, Bridget Prentice, a parliamentary undersecretary at the Ministry of Justice, replied, "The Crown is the ultimate owner of all land in England and Wales (including the Isles of Scilly): all other owners hold an estate in land. Although there is some land that the Crown has never granted away, most land is held of the Crown as freehold or leasehold."
"the Land Registration Act 2002 put it, "the concepts of leasehold and freehold derive from medieval forms of tenure and are not ownership". What this means is that, in relation to land in the UK, we are all tenants on the basis of the feudal superiority of the Crown, a superiority created in 1066 and founded on legal norms that were created to uphold that same feudal superiority."
The great property swindle: why do so few people in Britain own so much of our land?
How do you feel about that JJ50?
"the Land Registration Act 2002 put it, "the concepts of leasehold and freehold derive from medieval forms of tenure and are not ownership". What this means is that, in relation to land in the UK, we are all tenants on the basis of the feudal superiority of the Crown, a superiority created in 1066 and founded on legal norms that were created to uphold that same feudal superiority."
The great property swindle: why do so few people in Britain own so much of our land?
How do you feel about that JJ50?
Any land ownership is only worth the quality of the authority available to back up the claim. In the UK, that authority is the same as the one used to lock us up if we are convicted of crimes: 'The Crown'. It's a pretty powerful authority here, as it happens, making 'ownership' a rather strong concept. It means we can all have our land compulsorily taken away from us to build a road, etc, which we all already know, and is little different from anywhere else (better than many). Mostly it's worthy of a big 'so what', tbh.
