Mansion House - Law Dictionary Search Results
Improvement of land
5, c. 24). The improvements authorised being those mentioned in the Improve-ment of Land Act, with many additions. Mansion-houses, by the (English) Limited Owners Residences Acts, 1870 and 1871 (33 & 34 Vict. c. 56, and 34 … c. 31), s. 5, are also 'improvements' within the (English) Improvement of Land Act, 1864. See also (English) Housing Act, 1936, and DRAINAGE.
messuage
messuage [Anglo-French, probably alteration of Old French mesnage dwelling house, ultimately from Latin mansion- mansio habitation, dwelling, from manēre to remain, sojourn, dwell] : a dwelling house with the adjacent buildings and
Settled land
the powers of a tenant for life (see Law of Property Act, ss. 28 et seq.). The principal mansion house on any settled land, and the park and grounds occupied therewith, cannot be sold without the consent either
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a space as might be ploughed with one plough, or as much as would maintain a family or mansion-house. According to some it was sixty acres; others make it eighty; and others, again, a hundred. The quantity,
Quarantine, or Quarentaine
and nothing shall be taken for assignment of her dower, but she shall remain in her husband's capital mansion-house for forty days after his death, during which time her dower shall be assigned. These forty days are
Limited Owners Residences Act
the tenant for life of a settled estate to charge the estate with the expense of building a mansion house to the extent of two years' rental of the estate; see Re Dunn, 1877, WN 39.
Berry, or Bury
beorg, Sax., a hill or castle], a villa or seat of habitation of a nobleman; a dwelling or mansion house; a sanctuary.
mains
The farm attached to a mansion house a manse
Mansa or Mansum
Mansa or Mansum, a mansion or house, Spelm.
Castellain
a castle; the constable of a fortified house; a person having the custody of one of the Crown mansions; an officer of the forest, Bract.; Manw.
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