Talk:Land tenure

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I notice there have been some considerable re-writes from my earlier version. I have two comments to make:

1. the "new" landlord/tenant relationship has no legal or historical relationship with that of tenure, although the terminology has been recycled. I hope I made that clear, the new article is innaccurate in that it implies that tenure can still be created by leasing.

1. the article systematically ignores -- despite my earlier careful wording -- the fact that most people who had some kind of real property rights (as we would now understand them) were neither in demesne, mesne lords nor tenants in chief.

I want to hack the article around to sort that out. Does anybody object?

Francis Davey 12:26, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Merge?

I think there's a very good case for merging this article with a rewrite of Land ownership and tenure. Alan 14:09, 13 November 2005 (UTC)

NO. Land ownership and tenure is actually largely about 'estates'. This one is about tenure. It is still incomplete as it fails to deal with the medieval unfree tenures that became copyhold (until that was abolished in 1925). Peterkingiron 23:53, 15 May 2006 (UTC)

I can see considerable merit in a merger here. This article could be renamed to something like Feudal tenure, and then the modern bits merged in. I would also merge with Title (property) to create a general article dealing with modern concepts of land ownership. In fact, I'd be almost tempted to merge all with Property, but that article is already very long. DWaterson 19:28, 17 January 2007 (UTC)

One needs to be wary of making articles that are too long, but still end up failing to be comprehensive. In dealing with the land law, this is particularly likely because it tends to be different in every country. One way of avaoiding this is to have a compatatively short main article, with cross-references to others using a 'main' template - in curly {{}} brackets. Peterkingiron 16:57, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Scotland

I think that this article definitely needs a decent Scottish input, particularly on crofting which is a highly unusual form of land tenure.--MacRusgail 17:55, 24 January 2007 (UTC)