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Heriot [supposed by some to be derived fr. here, Sax., an army, and geat, provision, Willis, 194. Coke derives it fr. here, lord, and geat, beste, i.e., the lord's beste, Co. Litt. 185 b], the right of the lord of a manor to the best beast of the deceased tenant of a manor, which beast may be seized by the lord, although it has never been within the manor, Western v. Bailey, (1897) 1 QB 86; but if a customary freehold tenement is mortgaged, and the mort-gagor being in possession dies, the heriot is not due because he had no legal seisin at the time of his death, Copestake v. Hoper, (1908) 2 Ch 10. Originally a tribute to the lord of the manor of the horse or habiliments of the deceased tenant, in order that the militi' apparatus might continue to be used for national defence by each succeeding tenant.A customary tribute of goods and chattels, payable to lord of the fee on tenant's death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 732.The extinction of heriots was first attempted by the (Engl...
Manorial documents
Manorial documents, Court Rolls, surveys, maps, terriers, all documents and books relating to the boundaries, franchises, wastes, customs or courts of a manor but not deeds or evidence of title to the manor, are now placed under the superintendence of the Master of the Rolls. They may remain in the possession or under the control of the lord of the manor but he shall not be entitled to destroy or wilfully damage them. The Master of the Rolls has power to direct the documents to be sent to the Public Record or local institutions undertaking to be responsible for the preservation and indexing of the documents and the Master of the Rolls may make rules for these purposes. [See (English) Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch., 2(4)]...
Vill, or village
Vill, or village, a manor; a parish; the out-part of a parish, 1 Steph. Com. A town or township, the simplest form of social organization; see Stubbs's Const. History of England, vol. i. p. 82; Williams on Rights of Common, pp. 39 et seq.; 1 Bl. Com. 115.The following is the difference between a mansion, a village, and a manor, viz.: a mansion may be of one or more houses, but it must be of one dwelling-house, and none near to it, for it other houses are contiguous, it is a village; and a manor may consist of several villages, or one alone, Fleta, 1. 6, c. 51....
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Appendant
Appendant, a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is more worthy; as an advowson, common, etc., which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in a church to a house, etc. It differs from appurtenance, in that appendant must ever be by prescription, i.e., a personal usage for a considerable time, while an appurtenance may be created at this day, for it a grant be made to a man and his heirs of common in such a moor for his beasts levant or couchant upon his manor, the commons are appurtenant to the manor, and the grant will pass them. Co. Litt. 121 b. see APPURTENANCES, COMMON....
Quit rent
Quit rent (quietus redditus), a rent payable to the lord by a freeholder or ancient copyholder of a manor, so called because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other services, 2 Bl. Com. 42. As no manor has been created since the statute Quia Emptores (see MANOR; QUIA EMPTORES), every quit rent must have become first payable at a date prior to that statute.A quit rent may be 'redeemed' by the owner of the land subject thereto, under s. 45 of the Con-veyancing Act, 1881, reproduced by the Law of Property Act, 1925, s. 191. Also to the remedies for non-payment, see s. 121 and ibid.Means a payment to a feudal lord by a freeholder or copyholder, so called because upon payment the tenant goes 'quit and free' (discharged) of all other services, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1262....
Free-bench
Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing out of the husband's interest, and is indeed a continuance of his estate.The term free-bench is equally applicable to the estate which, by the custom of some manors, a husband takes in his wife's copyhold lands after her death, and anciently it was indiscriminately applied to that and to the widow's dower, but now the estate of the husband is called his curtesy, while the term free-bench is confined to the widow.Since free-bench is only claimable by special custom, the estate which a widow is to take, both as to its quantity, quality, and duration, must be such as the custom prescribes. It is generally a third for her life, as at Common Law, but it is sometimes a fourth part only, and sometimes but a portion of the rent. In many manors the wife takes the whole for her life, in others she takes the inheritance.Frequently the c...
Barton
The demesne lands of a manor also the manor itself...
Appurtenances
Appurtenances, belonging to another thing, as hamlets to a manor, and common of pasture, turbary, etc.; liberties and services, outhouses, yards orchards, and gardens are appurtenant to a messuage, but lands cannot properly be said to be appurtenant to a messuage, Com. Dig., tit. 'Appendant and Appurtenant.' The word 'appurtenances' will be construed strictly [Re Peck, (1893) 2 Ch 315], but it has a secondary meaning equivalent to 'usually occupied with'; see Roe v. Siddons, (1888) 22 QBD 236, per Fry. (LJ).A right of common 'appurtenant' must be the subject of a grant, express or implied by prescription; 'appendant,' is a right by common law incident to certain grants made before the Statute 'Quia Emptores' 1290 (18 Edw. 1, c. 1).The right to compensation upon extinguishment of manorial incidents is a right appertaining to a manor; (English) L. P. Act, 1925, s. 52, replacing and extending the Conveyancing Act, 1881, s. 6....
Barton, Berton, or Burton
Barton, Berton, or Burton [fr. beretun, berteun, bere wic, A. S., a court-yard, corn farm; from bere, barley, and tun, inclosure, or wic, dwelling. A. S, Bosw.], demesne lands of a manor, a gret farm, a manor-house, out-houses fold-yards, a court-yard.In 2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 82, barton lands and demesne lands are used as synonymous. Blount says it always signified a farm distinct from a mansion; and bertonarii were farmers or husbandmen, who held bartons at the will of the lord. In the west of England they call a great farm a barton, and a small farm a living, Encyc. Londin....
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