Quia Emptores, Statute of

Lat: an act passed by Parliament in 1290 which abolished the restraint upon alienation or transfer of land that had been imposed under the feudal system. The process of subinfeudation [creation of new manors by the subject of a lord] was terminated, and after that date only the king was able to infeudate. The statute's practical effect on land transactions and ownership was that after the land was sold, the seller had no further connection with it. See Tiffany, A Treatise on the Modern Law of Real Property 15 (1940). Thus subinfeudation was replaced by strict alienation.