Law of Property Act 1922

(1) The following provisions shall, from and after the commencement of this Act, apply with respect to the enfranchised land:—

(a) The land shall be freehold land and be free from liability for forfeiture for the conveyance or attempted conveyance of an estate of freehold in the land, or for alienation without licence, whether by way of sale, lease, mortgage or otherwise :

(b) The tenant shall be free from the customary suits and services and from liability to do fealty :

(c) In place of the lord's right to escheat the Crown or the Duchy of Lancaster or the Duke of Cornwall (as the case may require) may become entitled to the land as bona vacantia under the provisions of Part VIII. of this Act:

(d) The land shall not be subject to the custom of borough English, or of gavelkind, or to any other customary mode of descent, or to any custom relating to dower or freebench or tenancy by the curtesy, or to any other custom whatsoever, but shall be governed as to descent on death and intestacy or partial intestacy and devolution on death by the provisions of Parts VIII. and IX. of this Act:

Provided that nothing in this paragraph with respect to dower, freebench, or curtesy shall apply to any person married before the commencement of this Act, unless in the case of dower or freebench the husband dies after the commencement of this Act, and in the case of curtesy, the wife dies after such commencement ; but where a right to freebench has attached before the commencement of this Act which cannot be barred by a testamentary or other disposition made by the husband, then such right shall, unless released, remain in force in equity :

(e) The land shall (subject to the provisions of Part I. of this Act and of this Schedule) be held under the same title as that under which it was held at the commencement of this Act, and shall not be subject to any estate, right, charge, or interest affecting the manor :

(f) Every mortgage of the copyhold estate in the land shall become a mortgage of the land for a term of years absolute in accordance with the provisions of Part I. of this Act and accordingly :

(i) Where at the commencement of this Act a mortgage of the customary estate of inheritance in copyhold land effected by surrender, with or without admission, or by a covenant to surrender, is subsisting, then the mortgagee shall, by virtue of this Act, acquire a legal term of years absolute in the enfranchised land comprised in his mortgage subject to a proviso for cesser corresponding to the right of redemption subsisting under the mortgage ;

(ii) Where at the commencement of this Act the copyhold land has been surrendered to the use of a mortgagee, without notice of a previous covenant to surrender contained in another mortgage, that mortgagee shall not be deemed to be a subsequent incumbrancer as respects the last-mentioned mortgage.

In this paragraph the expression " surrender " includes any other disposition which, when entered on the court rolls, operated as a surrender to the use of any person.