Land ownership now comes in two forms
Prior to the enactment of this legislation, it was possible to create other forms of ownership, such as “fee tail estate”, where lands could only pass to descendants of the original holder; or “fee farm grant”, which gave the benefits of ownership, but imposed an annual rent.
These latter ownership models gave the person disposing of land the ability to control the ownership and indeed the future ownership of land — which ironically is becoming an issue of ever increasing importance, given the increase in marital breakdowns, particularly over recent decades.
