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Mansion-house, a dwelling-house.-3 Inst. 64. See (English) LIMITED OWNERS RESIDENCES ACT. The (English) Settled Land Act, 1882 (45 & 46 Vict. c. 38, gave (see SETTLED LAND) a tenant for life a power to sell settled land, but by s. 10 of the (English) Settled Land Act, 1890, repealing and re-enacting, with amendments, s. 15 of that Act, the 'principal mansion-house' (unless it be usually occupied as a farmhouse, or its site with its park, etc., do not exceed twenty five acres in extent) was not to be sold, exchanged, or leased by such tenant for life without the consent of the trustees of the settlement, or the order of the Chancery Division of the High Court. Now, by the (English) Settled Land Act, 1925, under settlements made after 1925, the mansion and park may be sold without the consent of the trustees or leave of the Court unless the settlement otherwise provides. For discussion on the meaning of the term 'the principal mansion-house,' see Gilbey v. Rush, (1906) 1 Ch 11....
mansion house
mansion house : a dwelling house of any size and any buildings (as barns or stables) within the curtilage ...
Mansion
Mansion [mansio, Lat., a manendo], the lord's house in a manor. Cf. The Mansion House, the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London. See next title....
mansion house
A large and imposing house...
Curtilage
Curtilage [fr. Cour, Fr., court; and leagh, Sax., place], a courtyard, backside, or piece of ground lying near and belonging to a dwelling-house [see Pilbrow v. Vestry of St. Leonard, Shoreditch, (1895) 1 QB 433]; the limit of the premises in which house-breaking can be committed. See (English) Larceny Act, 1916, s. 46 (2), by which no building, though within the curtilage, is to be deemed part of a dwelling-house to constitute burglary, unless therebe a communication between such building and the dwelling-house.Curtilage, as limited to the immediate area surrounding a building, Skerritts Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2003) 3 WLR 511.Of a mansion house, an area which no conveyancer would extend beyond that occupied by the house, the stables and other outbuildings. The gardens and the rough grass up to the ha-ha, if there was one (According to Nourse LJ), Skerritts of Nottingham Ltd. v. Secretary of State (CA), (2001) QB LR 59.Curtilage, has been described as a courtyard, back-side ...
Improvement of land
Improvement of land. The (English) Improvement of Land Acts, 1864 and 1899 (27 & 28 Vict. c. 114, and 62 & 63 Vict. c. 46), enumerate a number of 'im-provements' such as the following: (1) Drainage; (2) Irrigation and Warping; (3) Embanking from the sea, etc.; (4) Inclosing, and redivision of fields; (5) Reclamation; (6) Making roads, tramways, railways, and canals; (7) Clearing; (8) Erection and improvement of cottage and farm buildings; (9) Planting for shelter; (10) Construction of mills, etc.; (11) Construction of landing-places; and allowed tenants for life to charge the cost of such improvements upon the fee of a settled estate with the sanction of the In closure Commissioners, after notice to persons in remainder, and certain specifications and surveys;-the sanction of the Commissioners to be given 'if they found (s. 25) that the improvements would effect a permanent increase of the yearly vale of the lands proposed to be improved.' The Acts have been amended by the (English) Ag...
House
A structure intended or used as a habitation or shelter for animals of any kind but especially a building or edifice for the habitation of man a dwelling place a mansion...
mains
The farm attached to a mansion house a manse...
Mansion
A dwelling place whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter...
Berry, or Bury
Berry, or Bury [fr. beorg, Sax., a hill or castle], a villa or seat of habitation of a nobleman; a dwelling or mansion house; a sanctuary....
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