Crown land
Posted on:3/30/2006
| Crown land is a designated land belonging to the Crown, the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it. |
Crown land is a designated land belonging to the Crown, the equivalent of an entailed estate that passed with the monarchy and could not be alienated from it.
In the United Kingdom and during the British Empire, the hereditary revenues of Crown lands were a feature until the start of the reign of George III when the Crown Estate was surrendered to Parliament in return for a fixed civil list payment - the monarch retains the income from the Duchy of Lancaster. The concept of Crown land in Canada and Australia has developed in parallel to the development of Federal lands in the US.
In the Austro-Hungarian Empire and its predecessor the Austrian Empire Crown lands were alternative administrative units to Duchys, same as in the Kingdom of Poland and its successor, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.
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