Fief Rights to Land Foreshore and other Treasure
There are many Custom and Legal Rights that a Fief Seigneur owns as a result of being the titled and registered
Lord of the Fief.
Other Customs: The Prior of Lihou owes a Dinner Each Year to the Lord Dames and Chiefs of the
Fief Thomas Blondel. Reference: https://archive.org/stream/reporttransa619091912guer/reporttransa619091912guer_djvu.txt
References:
-
Manorial Rights of the Crown Dependencies by Le Cras
- Private Courts www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-guernsey-27962557
- Land
https://www.theguardian.com/money/2017/jul/26/ground-rents-aristocrats-shell-firms-among-those-making-millions
- Wind Farms and Bays
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2015/06/04/ancient-property-laws-must-be-respected-despite-foreshore-gift/
- Coinage www.coinsweekly.com/en/Archive/The-coins-of-the-Channel-Island-of-Guernsey/8?&id=743&type=a
- Foreshore - High and Low Tide Lands - https://www.jerseylaw.je/publications/jglr/PDF%20Documents/JLR1006_Falle.pdf
- Seaweed www.bahs.org.uk/AGHR/ARTICLES/14n2a4.pdf
- SeaSted SeaBed - Shoreline Disputes
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2015/05/28/queens-foreshore-gift-could-cost-islanders-millions-warns-advocate/
- Fishing "droits de pecherie" - On Shorlines and inside territory.
- Common Areas and Underground: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2016/04/25/car-park-drains-work-needs-permission-of-the-seigneur/
-
Droits de Chasse (Hunting Rights) Reference
- Water and Streams
- Emoluments
- Annuities or revenues
- Dignities
- Homage
- Colombier
or Dovecote Rights - Fief Blondel has the Famous Colombier House in its district.
- Air & Cellular Rights - Based on Devecote Rights of Air and Sky.
- Flattery
- Soil https://www.jerseylaw.je/publications/jglr/Pages/JLR0806_Falle.aspx
- Champarts of wheat
- Bows
- Suit to the royal court - Some Seigneurs participate each year.
- Treasure - See Law Review Article from
Plymouth - See:
General rights to Wreck and Treasure
- The lord is further entitled to the Escheat of the real estate of tenants dying without heirs, or convicted
of crimes involving death or banishment, and in some instances - by special grant from the Crown - to the goods
and chattels of convicts. and all other rights and seigneurial uses belonging to or belonging to the said Fief,
without exception or reservation whatsoever.
- Rights to Avowson or to Appoint a Vicar or Priest - https://books.google.com/books?pg=PP36&dq=%22right+of+Advowson%22&id=t6RFAAAAcAAJ&output=text
- Seigneurial Rights Jersey & Guernsey Law Review – June 2008 - THE CUSTOMARY LAW IN RELATION TO THE
FORESHORE (1) - Richard Falle & John Kelleher https://www.jerseylaw.je/publications/jglr/Pages/JLR0806_Falle.aspx
- Jersey & Guernsey Law Review – June 2010 - THE CUSTOMARY LAW IN RELATION TO THE FORESHORE (2) - Richard
Falle and John https://www.jerseylaw.je/publications/jglr/Pages/JLR1006_Falle.aspx
- Some Fiefs have rights can sell for up to 64,000 dollars in 1987 - https://www.upi.com/Archives/1987/10/25/Lordships-at-bargain-basement-prices/1943562132800/
- Advice on Owning a Lordship: https://jvbq.wordpress.com/2017/02/08/advice-on-buying-manorial-lordships/
- Manorial Rights Registration
www.mondaq.com/uk/x/300978/agriculture+land+law/Mind+your+manors+registration+of+manorial+rights+over+your+land
- Fief Blondel Beach
Link
- International Court
of Justice Case on French/English History of Channel Islands and Rights of Seigneurs for Shipwrecks
and booty.
- The Laws of England and
Fiefs
- Fiefs of
Guernsey Digital Map
- Fief Map
Zoom
Fief Blondel Beach Map Below
Lord Kinnear, in Smith v. Lerwick Harbour Trustees said about the Crown's property rights: "If the solum of
Shetland as a whole is not originally the property of the Crown, I know of no authority, and can see no reason, for
holding (saying) that part of it which is called the foreshore is Crown Property". This statement could equally
well be applied to the seabed, especially since the foreshore is regarded as part of the
seabed in English law. S.O.U.L.
(udallaw.com)
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