Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax
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Re: Italian seaside residents hit with bygone feudal tax
#2Maybe they should apply to the king of Italy for relief, since it is from his divine right to all the land that the fief is granted to his vassals.
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#3and this belongs here because...?
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#4What a boutade. Even if all fiefdom weren't canceled after the demonarchization process, Italy still has usucapione laws that are fairly short and to the point.
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#5In the UK, during the purchase of our house we had to take a "chancel liability insurance", because our freehold once belonced to a rectory, so to protect ourselves from repair liability towards a chapel that has been here for centuries, we had to pay a one-off insurance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel_repair_liability
Leftover laws are weird things.
EDIT: PS: sadly, the legendary, obligatory archery practice - http://www.lordsandladies.org/the-butts.htm SFW ; "butt" was the name of an archery range - was removed from the law in England: https://loweringthebar.net/2010/06/do-englishmen-still-have-...
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#6and this belongs here because...?
Because someone posted it, and others voted on it.
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#7Now wondering which European countries still have intact feudal law. Scotland abolished feudal tenure in 2000: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abolition_of_Feudal_Tenure_etc... ; most of the feu burdens were abolished or explicitly ported across. England&Wales still retains the feudal system in places and occasionally people are hit by "chancel repair liability" or somesuch.
The chivalric court still exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Court_of_Chivalry "prior to [1954], the Court had not sat for two centuries and before hearing the case, the Court first had to rule whether it still existed"
As does the last relic of real feudal power: the House of Lords, the last of Europe's unelected legislatures outside a microstate.
Conversely there are a few recipients of ancient national debt: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/this-bond-still-pays-inter...
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#8Here's a fun English type of real property right that has taken some people by surprise in recent years: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chancel_repair_liability
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#9What a boutade. Even if all fiefdom weren't canceled after the demonarchization process, Italy still has usucapione laws that are fairly short and to the point.
For the uninitiated, usocapione is the legal process whereby those who are in possession of an item (in this case, land) can become legal owners over a period of time. Presumably the lack of enforcement over a very long time (60 years being mentioned in the article) implies that these feudal rights might not be enforceable anymore.
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#10When my brother bought his house (UK, built in the early 2000s), we had to buy insurance against the local church needing a new roof. The residents of the area were responsible for local church upkepe because of a medieval edict. It was only about £40 luckily...