Statute of Quia Emptores
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The Statute of Quia Emptores is a 1290 English law that reformed feudal landholding by allowing free alienation of land and effectively halting the creation of new feudal tenures.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Statute of Quia Emptores canonical | 4 |
| Quia Emptores (1290) | 1 |
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Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statute of Quia Emptores Context triple: [Edward I of England, notableWork, Statute of Quia Emptores]
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A.
The Statutes of the Realm
The Statutes of the Realm is an authoritative multi-volume collection of English and later British parliamentary statutes, covering legislation from the medieval period through the early modern era.
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Magna Carta
Magna Carta is a landmark 1215 English charter that limited royal power and established foundational principles of rule of law and individual rights that shaped later constitutional traditions.
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C.
Novellae Constitutiones
Novellae Constitutiones are the later imperial laws and legal reforms issued mainly by Emperor Justinian I that supplemented and updated the earlier parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis in Byzantine Roman law.
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D.
Glass–Owen Act
The Glass–Owen Act is the landmark 1913 U.S. law that created the Federal Reserve System as the nation’s central bank to stabilize the financial system and manage monetary policy.
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E.
King's Regulations
King's Regulations are the formal rules and administrative code governing conduct, discipline, and procedures within the British Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Statute of Quia Emptores Target entity description: The Statute of Quia Emptores is a 1290 English law that reformed feudal landholding by allowing free alienation of land and effectively halting the creation of new feudal tenures.
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A.
The Statutes of the Realm
The Statutes of the Realm is an authoritative multi-volume collection of English and later British parliamentary statutes, covering legislation from the medieval period through the early modern era.
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B.
Magna Carta
Magna Carta is a landmark 1215 English charter that limited royal power and established foundational principles of rule of law and individual rights that shaped later constitutional traditions.
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C.
Novellae Constitutiones
Novellae Constitutiones are the later imperial laws and legal reforms issued mainly by Emperor Justinian I that supplemented and updated the earlier parts of the Corpus Juris Civilis in Byzantine Roman law.
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D.
Glass–Owen Act
The Glass–Owen Act is the landmark 1913 U.S. law that created the Federal Reserve System as the nation’s central bank to stabilize the financial system and manage monetary policy.
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E.
King's Regulations
King's Regulations are the formal rules and administrative code governing conduct, discipline, and procedures within the British Army.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
English statute
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medieval law ⓘ property law reform ⓘ |
| appliesTo | tenures in fee simple ⓘ |
| citedAsPrecedentIn | later English property law cases ⓘ |
| doesNotApplyTo |
copyhold tenures
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leases for years ⓘ |
| effect |
allowed tenants in fee simple to sell or convey their land without lord’s consent
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contributed to the decline of the feudal system in England ⓘ effectively halted the creation of new feudal tenures by subinfeudation ⓘ froze the existing hierarchy of feudal tenures ⓘ helped establish the modern concept of fee simple ownership ⓘ permitted free alienation of land by subinfeudated tenants ⓘ prevented the creation of new mesne lordships ⓘ promoted the marketability of land ⓘ required purchasers to hold land directly of the same lord as the seller ⓘ strengthened the position of overlords by preventing loss of services through subinfeudation ⓘ |
| enactedBy | Edward I of England ⓘ |
| enactedInYear | 1290 ⓘ |
| geographicScope | England ⓘ |
| hasAlternativeName |
Quia Emptores
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Quia Emptores Terrarum ⓘ |
| historicalContext |
late 13th-century English legal reforms
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reign of Edward I ⓘ |
| influenced |
development of English common law of real property
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land law in many common law jurisdictions ⓘ |
| jurisdiction | Kingdom of England ⓘ |
| languageOfTitle | Latin ⓘ |
| legalDomain |
feudal law
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land law ⓘ real property law ⓘ |
| longTermImpact |
contributed to centralization of royal authority over land tenure
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facilitated a land market based on alienable estates ⓘ reduced fragmentation of feudal obligations ⓘ |
| partOf | Edward I’s statutory reforms of English law ⓘ |
| permitted | substitution of tenants by alienation ⓘ |
| primaryPurpose |
to reform feudal landholding
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to regulate alienation of land held in fee simple ⓘ |
| prohibited | subinfeudation of fee simple estates ⓘ |
| relatedConcept |
fee simple
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feudal tenure ⓘ mesne lord ⓘ overlordship ⓘ subinfeudation ⓘ |
| statusInEnglishLaw | historically foundational for rules on alienation of land ⓘ |
| temporalScope | from 1290 onward in medieval and later English land law ⓘ |
| titleMeaning | “because the buyers” ⓘ |
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Quia Emptores (1290)