section enacts " That the Tenure upon all Gifts, Grants, and Conveyances heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, of any Manors, Lands, Tenements, or Hereditaments, of any Estate of Inheritance, by any Letters Patent under the Great Seal of this State, or in any other Manner, by the People of this State, or by the Commissioners of Forfeitures, shall be and remain Allodial, and not Feudal, and shall forever hereafter be taken and adjudged to be, and to continue in free and pure Allodium only."

The Statute of Charles seems to have been reenacted, out of pure caution only, for its provisions had been the law of the Province and the State from the Dutch surrender to the time this statute was passed. It was pure surplusage. But why the first section was enacted is by no means clear. The act certainly confirms the free socage tenure of all lands in New York, does away with every other tenure and its incidents, except the fealty to the State and to " the Chief Lord " in the first section stated. While the last section declares the Socage tenure purely allodial in so many words. It thus actually re-enacted the entire English Provincial system of land tenure, including the manor system as the State land system of New York.

Lender this act the State law as to tenures remained without change from its enactment in 1787 to the year 1830, when the Revised Statutes went into effect which declare that all lands since that date are allodial and abolish all incidents of the socage tenure, and, the tenure itself, using the word ' feudal ' to exl>ress it, preserving, however, all rights under the same as they had previously existed. The "Tenure of Real Property " is thus stated.