Talk:Freehold (law): Difference between revisions

Nonsensical sentence

In the Freehold section, this sentence appears but does not make sense. I’m uncertain as to how to correct it.

“Trustees are bound by the terms of the trust, but the strict rules and maxims of equity and by any decision formally made by all of the adult beneficiaries.”

I removed this paragraph, “Rules of intestate succession for copyhold land almost always dictated male primogeniture in England and Wales. Land held in copyhold tenure, by contrast, was subject to many local variations, male primogeniture being the most common but not the unique form of inheritance in cases of intestate succession” from the article since it contains noting about freehold. It confused me utterly. I thought, “Why am I reading about another form of English land holding, about which I know nothing?” It took five minutes of reading subsidary articles to realize that copyhold has nothing whatsoever to do with freehold except it is also a form of English land holding. Nick Beeson (talk) 14:16, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

I’m not surprised you were confused, but the real problem is that the whole paragraph was hopelessly garbled. I imagine that the first sentence was supposed to be about freehold, and was meant to read something like: “Rules of intestate succession for freehold land was almost always dictated by male primogeniture in England and Wales.” The second sentence was then meant to explain the contrasting position under copyhold tenure (although it’s still incorrect, as copyhold property cannot be willed, so any question of “intestacy” is irrelevant). However, I agree deletion was the best course of action, although if somebody wants to add an informed sentence or two on intestacy and primogeniture that might be appropriate. The copyhold article is also pretty garbled, and I’ll try to tidy that up a bit. GrindtXX (talk) 21:09, 20 December 2013 (UTC)[reply]

This article needs a section on American law. In the United States, the typical ownership estate in land is a freehold. When an American buys or inherits land, she or he expects to acquire a freehold, and other ownership estates are exceptional, if indeed they exist. J. D. Crutchfield | Talk 20:44, 20 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]

In reviewing some of the old versions of this page I noticed a bunch of WP:RS was deleted
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from this version. —David Tornheim (talk) 21:54, 9 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]