Barony - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Pertaining to a baron or a barony...
Barony of land
Barony of land, a quantity of land amounting to 15 acres. In Ireland, a sub-division of a county....
Barony, or Baronage
Barony, or Baronage, the honour and territory of a baron; also the body of barons and peers....
Caput baroni'
Caput baroni', the castle or chief seat of a baron....
Baroness
A barons wife also a lady who holds the baronial title in her own right as the Baroness Burdett Coutts...
Barony
The fee or domain of a baron the lordship dignity or rank of a baron...
Domina
Lady a lady a title formerly given to noble ladies who held a barony in their own right...
Baron
Baron [fr. beorn, Sax., noble], the fifth and lowest degree of nobility, next to a viscount, and above that of a knight or baronet. In the Salic Law it signifies free-born. The present barons are-(1) By prescription; for that they and their ancestors have immemorially sat in the Upper House.(2) Barons by patent, having obtained a patent of this dignity to them and their heirs, male or otherwise. (3) Barons by tenure, holding the title as annexed to land; it is said that it is the possession of their ancient landed territories which imparts the barony to the bishops, there by giving them a place in the Upper House, although they hold by succession, not by inheritance; but it is rather thought that they sit in the Upper House by immemorial usage....
Bothna, or Buthna
Bothna, or Buthna, a park where cattle are enclosed and fed; a barony, lordship, etc, Skene....
Domina (Dame)
Domina (Dame), a title given to honourable women, who, anciently, in their own right of inheritance, held a barony, Cowel...
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