The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage formerly kept in his own hands for the use and subsistence of his family. In these days, a manor rather signifies the jurisdiction and royalty incorporeal, than the land or site; for a man may have a manor in gross, as the law terms it, that is, the right and interest of a court-baron, with the perquisites thereto belonging.
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1. The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
2. A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
Manor
Encyclopedia Britannica
MANOR, in English law, is an estate in land, to which is incident the right to hold certain courts called courts baron. It might be described as the unit of tenure under the feudal system, and it is historically connected with the territorial divisions of the mark and the parish or township. The legal theory of the origin of manors refers them to a grant from the crown, as stated in the following extract from Perkins’s Treatise on the laws of England :—“The beginning of a manor was when the king gave a thousand acres of land, or a greater or lesser parcel of land, unto one of his subjects and his heirs, which tenure is knight’s service at the least. And the donor did perhaps build a mansion house upon parcel of the same land, and of 20 acres, parcel of that which remained, or of a greater or lesser parcel before the statute of Quia Emptores did enfeoff a stranger to hold of him and his heirs to plow 10 acres of land, parcel of that which remained in his possession, and did enfeoff another of another parcel thereof to go to war with him against the Scots, <fcc., and so by continuance of time made a manor.” It is still, as Mr Joshua Williams terms it, a “fundamental rule” that all lands were originally derived from the crown, and that the queen is lady paramount mediate or immediate of all the land in the realm. A manor then arises where the owner of a parcel so granted or supposed to have been granted by the crown (and who is called in relation thereto the lord) has in turn granted portions thereof to others who stand to him in the relation of tenants. Of the portion reserved by the lord for his own use (his demesne) part was occupied by villeins, with the duty of cultivating the rest for the lord’s use. These were originally tenants at will, and in a ...state of semi-serfdom, but they became in course of time the copyhold tenants of the later law. (See Copyhold.) It is of the essence of copyhold that it should be regulated by the custom of the manor; and that, according to some authorities, is one reason why a manor cannot be created at the present day. “Length of time being of the very essence of a manor, such things as receive their perfection by the continuance of time come not within the compass of a king’s prerogative” (Scriven, Copyholds, chap. i,). But the effect of the statute of Quia Emptores vias to make the creation of manors henceforward impossible, inasmuch as it enacted “that upon all sales or feoffments of land, the feoffee shall hold the same, not of his immediate feoffor, but of the chief lord of the fee of whom such feoffor himself held it.” The statute did not apply to the king’s tenants in capite, who might have aliened their land under a licence. Accordingly it is assumed that all existing manors are “of a date prior to the statute of Quia Emptores, except perhaps some which may have been created by the king’s tenants in capite with licence from the crown” (Williams, Real Property, chap. iv.; see also Scriven, Copyholds, chap. i.). When a great baron had granted out smaller manors to others, the seignory of the superior baron was frequently termed an honour.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 15, p. 496
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1. MAN'OR-HOUSE
2. MAN'OR-SEAT, noun The house belonging to a manor.
1. MANO'RIAL
3. They have no civil liberty; their children belong not to them, but to their manorial lord.
Property Roget’s Thesaurus §780
N. property, possession, suum cuique, meum et tuum, ownership, proprietorship, lordship, seignority, empire, interest, stake, estate, right, title, claim, demand, holding, tenure, vested interest, contingent interest, beneficial interest, equitable interest, use, trust, benefit, legal estate, equitable estate, seizin, seisin, absolute interest, paramount estate, freehold, fee tail, fee simple, estate in fee, estate in tail, estate tail, estate in tail male, estate in tail female, estate in tail general, limitation, term, lease, settlement, strict settlement, particular estate, estate for life, estate for years, estate pur autre vie, remainder, reversion, expectancy, possibility, dower, dowry, jointure, appanage, inheritance, heritage, patrimony, alimony, legacy, falcidian law, paternal estate, thirds, assets, belongings, means, resources, circumstances, wealth, money, what one is worth, what one will cut up for, estate and effects, landed property, landed real estate property, realty, land, lands, tenements, hereditaments, corporeal hereditaments, incorporeal hereditaments, acres, ground, acquest, messuage, toft, territory, state, kingdom, principality, realm, empire, protectorate, sphere of influence, manor, honor, domain, demesne, farm, plantation, hacienda, allodium, fief, fieff, feoff, feud, zemindary, dependency, arado, merestead, ranch, free lease-holds, copy lease-holds, folkland, chattels real, fixtures, plant, heirloom, easement, right of common, right of user, personal property, personal estate, personal effects, personalty, chattels, goods, effects, movables, stock, stock in trade, things, traps, rattletraps, paraphernalia, equipage, parcels, appurtenances, impedimenta, luggage, baggage, bag and baggage, pelf, cargo, lading, rent roll, income, maul and wedges, patent, copyright, chose in action, credit, debt
V. possess, be the possessor of, own, have for one's own, have for one's very own, come in for, inherit, savor of the realty, be one's property, belong to, appertain to, pertain to
Adj. one's own, landed, predial, manorial, allodial, free lease-hold, copy lease-hold, feudal, feodal
Adv. to one's credit, to one's account, to the good, to one and his heirs for ever, to one and the heirs of his body, to one and his heirs and assigns, to one and his executors administrators and assigns
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