In
feudal law
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of structuring societ ...
, ''nulle terre sans seigneur'' (
French for "no land without (a) lord", ) is the principle that one provides services to the
sovereign
''Sovereign'' is a title that can be applied to the highest leader in various categories. The word is borrowed from Old French , which is ultimately derived from the Latin">-4; we might wonder whether there's a point at which it's appropriate to ...
(usually serving in his
army
An army, ground force or land force is an armed force that fights primarily on land. In the broadest sense, it is the land-based military branch, service branch or armed service of a nation or country. It may also include aviation assets by ...
) for the right to receive land from the sovereign. Originally a maxim of feudal law,
it applies in modern form to paying
rates or land tax for land of former
feudal
Feudalism, also known as the feudal system, was a combination of legal, economic, military, cultural, and political customs that flourished in Middle Ages, medieval Europe from the 9th to 15th centuries. Broadly defined, it was a way of struc ...
or feudal-like origin such as land with modern
fee simple
In English law, a fee simple or fee simple absolute is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. A "fee" is a vested, inheritable, present possessory interest in land. A "fee simple" is real property held without limit of time (i.e., pe ...
title, as opposed to land with
allodial or
udal title.
In the original
French, the expression means "No land without a lord" though the legal sense might be more akin to "no property without a liege" since it was at the basis of the link between the infeodated or
feal and his
liege, in the feudal system.
See also
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History of English land law
The history of English land law can be traced back to Roman times. Throughout the Early Middle Ages, where England came under rule of sub-Roman Britain, post-Roman chieftains and Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies, Anglo-Saxon monarchs, land was the ...
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Aboriginal title
Aboriginal title is a common law doctrine that the Indigenous land rights, land rights of indigenous peoples to customary land, customary tenure persist after the assumption of sovereignty to that land by another Colonization, colonising state. ...
References
Economic systems
Feudalism
Medieval law
Nobility
Social classes
Medieval economic history
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