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so the freehold that had been extinguished has now re-appeared. As Michael Palin asserted of the Norwegian Blue parrot in the “Monty Python” sketch, it was not dead. It had simply been resting or stunned. Crucially from the point of view of the Crown Estate, or at least its legal advisers, during the process of reincarnation that very same freehold had shed all the obligations it had had. It was now a new freehold, exempt from all legislation.