Subscribe to my personal channel for videos on how to study law effectively & efficiently:    / @heygarethevans   All land in England and Wales is vested in the Crown; it is therefore impossible for you or me to own the land itself. In 1066 William the Conqueror conquered England and one manifestation of this was that he became the owner of all the land. This brought about a conundrum: if he owned the physical land then what could the people own? The answer is provided in the doctrine of estates…

The doctrine of estates is the idea being that although we cannot own the physical land itself we can have a right to enjoy, use and control that land. In modern day, the only remaining legal estates in land are the “estate in fee simple absolute in possession” (or “freehold”) and the “term of years absolute” (or “leasehold”) (LPA 1925 s.1(1)(a)). Historically there were more than 2 legal estates.

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