Lordship - Law Dictionary Search Results
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Lordship, dominion, manor, seigniory, domain; also title of honour of a nobleman not being a duke. It is also the customary titular appellation of the judges and some other persons in authority and office....
Manor
Manor [fr. manerium, Lat.; manoir, Fr., habitation, or manendo, of abiding there, because the lord usually resided there], an estate in fee-simple in a tract of land granted by the sovereign to a subject (usually of power and consequence) in consideration of certain services to be performed. The tenementales were granted out; the dominicales (whence the ter demesne) were reserved to the lord; the barren lands which remained formed the 'wastes'; the whole fee was termed a lordship or barony; and the Court appendant to the manor the Court baron. Every manor (with some doubtful and unimportant exceptions) is of a date prior to the statute of Quia Emptores (18 Edw. 1, c. 1).'A manor,' says Mr. Joshua Williams, 'was made by the owner of an estate in fee carving out other estates in fee to be held by other freeholders as his tenants. A manor consists of demesnes and services: of demesnes, that is, of lands of which the freeholder, now become lord of a manor, is seised in his demesne as of fe...
Barony
The fee or domain of a baron the lordship dignity or rank of a baron...
Castellany
The lordship of a castle the extent of land and jurisdiction appertaining to a castle...
Court leet
A court of record held once a year in a particular hundred lordship or manor before the steward of the leet...
Dynasty
Sovereignty lordship dominion...
Grandeeship
The rank or estate of a grandee lordship...
Lordship
The state or condition of being a lord hence with his or your a title applied to a lord except an archbishop or duke who is called Grace or a judge in Great Britain etc...
Marquisate
The seigniory dignity or lordship of a marquis the territory governed by a marquis...
Overlordship
Lordship or supremacy of a person or a people over others...
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