Tenures Flashcards
Freemen
hold freehold under different types of tenures/estates
King
Allodial owner
Tenant in Chief
top aristocrats that hold land from the king under loyalty, fealty, and homage
Mesne
lords that subdivide land and grant it to lower lords
Unfree men
Hold copyhold tenure –> villeins hold small patches of land, converted into socage
Knight service
Type of tenure, providing $ or knights to the king
Serjeanty
personal service to king
Frankalmoin
spiritual service
Socage
Agricultural obligations (still exist today)
Incidents of tenure
aids, escheat, marriage, wardship
Quia Emptores
Basis for free alienation. replaced subinfeudation with substitution (seller can drop out of pyramid and gets replaced by the buyer). Over time, had the effect of flattening pyramid, giving more money to the King
Tenures Evolution Act
Eliminated incidents of tenure, except escheatment and forfeiture
