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In Australia, public lands without a specific tenure (e.g. National Park or State Forest) are referred to as Crown land or State Land, which is described as being held in the "right of the Crown" of either an individual State or the Commonwealth of Australia (as Australia is a federation, there is no single "Crown" as legal entity).
They have stated that their name, "Crown Lands", communicates a desire to disrupt the concept of Canadian "crown land", or government-held lands stolen from First Nations. [4] Crown Lands won the Juno Award for Breakthrough Group of the Year at the Juno Awards of 2021. [5] The band were also nominated for Rock Album of the Year. [6]
The history of the Crown lands in England and Wales begins with the Norman Conquest in 1066. [20] By right of conquest, William I (r. 1066–1087) owned all the land in England and was able to redistribute it based on feudal principles.
In all modern states, a portion of land is held by central or local governments. This is called public land, state land, or Crown land (Commonwealth realms). The system of tenure of public land, and the terminology used, varies between countries. The following examples illustrate some of the range.
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At the beginning of Hugh Capet's reign, the crown estate was extremely small and consisted mostly of scattered possessions in the Île-de-France and Orléanais regions (Senlis, Poissy, Orléans), with several other isolated pockets, such as Attigny. These lands were largely the inheritance of the Robertians, the direct ancestors of the Capetians.
The federal government initially retained all lands in Rupert's Land and the North-Western Territory, unlike the situation in eastern Canada, where the provinces held Crown lands and could make land grants. [8] The federal Crown's ownership of the land in western Canada included the power to grant land titles, and also the power to determine if ...
Zeta (Serbian Cyrillic: Зета) as a crown land was a medieval region and province of the Serbian state (Principality, Kingdom, and Empire) of the Nemanjić dynasty, from the end of the 12th century, up to the middle of the 14th century. During that period, regional administration in Zeta was often bestowed to various members of the ruling ...