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Feudal land tenure in England

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28: 500:, under which tenants paid tax assessed according to their knight's fee, instead of providing knights. Before the mid-13th century the fiefdoms had not been heritable owing to the uncertainty of whether the heir of the tenant would be capable of providing the required knight-service. As scutage replaced knight-service, that question fell outside consideration. Heirs were therefore able to succeed fiefs in exchange for the payment of a 455:, which required the tenant to provide a number of knights for their liege for 40 days per annum. After the served days, the liege was obliged either to begin paying the knights, or to dismiss them. However, tenants who held their land by the tenure of knight-service were not permitted to pass their lands to the heir automatically, but were required to obtain the lord's approval. 390:
existed, each effectively a contract with differing rights and duties attached thereto. Such tenures could be either free-hold if they were hereditable or perpetual or non-free if they terminated on the tenant's death or at an earlier specified period.
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declared himself to be the sole allodial owner of the entire realm, that land tenures changed drastically. In William's kingdom the common exchange and sale of land became restricted and all landholders were made to provide a service to their lord
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William stripped the land from those who opposed him and redistributed it among his followers. He introduced a new type of feudalism, in which obligation extended right down through the hierarchy, a model informed by the
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The system failed because the assessment of knight's fees became impossible to maintain. A few estates retained the same wealth and population as when first
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A Short Historical Introduction to the Law of Real Property
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large parts of the realm were unoccupied and owned as
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Index

English feudalism

Harold Sacramentum Fecit Willelmo Duci
Bayeux Tapestry
Fief
Ecclesiastical fief
Crown land
Allodial title
Appanage
Vassal
Feoffment
Seignory
Subinfeudation
Feoffee
Fealty
Homage
Affinity
Feudal maintenance
Feudal fragmentation
Bastard feudalism
Livery
Manorialism
Lord of the manor
Manorial court
Manor house
List
Demesne
Glebe
Overlord
Lord

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