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Quia Emptores
[Latin: whereas purchasers (the first words of the preamble)] A statute of 1290 (still in force today) that forbids the creation of any new tenures (i.e. subinfeudation) other than by the Crown. Owners of land wishing to transfer the property may only do so by selling it, not by creating a new lord–tenant relationship. This is the basis of the modern system of conveying estates. The leasehold (or landlord and tenant) relationship fell outside the feudal system of tenures (only one of which effectively now remains, namely the freehold tenure of socage) and so can still be freely created as outside the scope of the statute. See also feudal system. |