| A tenant is the owner of a legal estate in land and it is a basic principle of English law that an estate in land is freely alienable. |
| The discovery that he had an alienable superiority over free land and free landowners would sharpen this rule. |
| In Western Europe, feudal property could be transformed gradually into privately owned, alienable property in land. |
| The first or lowest consisted of villains in gross, who were alienable at pleasure. |
| And so, again, the lords rights under the commendation seem to constitute an alienable and heritable seignory. |
| In modern times, they are generally alienable, devisable and inheritable. |
