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Re:Who Owns England? by throwaway9980 on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:12PM (#14407118)
The term for absolute ownership of land is called Allodial title. It exists practically nowhere.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title

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Re:Who Owns England? by jacoblambda on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @12:22AM (#14407593)
Non mobile link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allodial_title
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Re:Who Owns England? by dghf on Wednesday May 24, 2017 @08:18AM (#14409424)
It still exists in Orkney and Shetland (which until the 15th century were part of Norway rather than Scotland) under the name of Udal tenure.

https://rosdev.atlassian.net/wiki/display/2ARM/Udal+Tenure

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Re:Who Owns England? by justinmk on Tuesday May 23, 2017 @10:20PM (#14407149)
It exists everywhere, but usually the State claims it. In Texas an individual may be able to claim it.

"Corporations are people" if the corporation is the State, it seems.

Michael Badnarik gave a good presentation on the subject:

https://archive.org/details/Michael_Badnarik

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