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Soke

Soke, a manor or lordship, Spelm. And see per Lord Chelmsford in Earl Beauchamp v. Winn, (1873) LR 6 HL 243.

Copyhold

rents, either in money or money's worth. A copyhold estate is a parcel of the demesnes of a manor held at the lord's will, and according to the custom of such manor. The tenant may have the

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Tenure

ut de honore, where the land was held of the king as proprietor of some honour, castle, or manor, or ut de corona, where it was held of him in right of the Crown itself. When these

Court-baron, a court which, before 1926 (see COPYHOLDS), although not one of record, was incident to every manor, and could not be severed therefrom. It was ordained for the maintenance of the services and duties stipulated

Advowson

annexed to the possession of some corporeal hereditament. Thus, where an advowson has immemorially passed together with a manor or reputed manor by a simple grant of such manor, without particularly referring to the advowson, it is

Ancient demesne

L. P. Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 16), see COPYHOLDS, but formerly existing in certain manors, which, though now granted to private persons, were in the actual possession of the Crown in the times

Heriot

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

Appendant

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

Court-leet

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

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