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Hide of Land, such 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, probably, was always determined by local usage. See Co. Litt. 69 a....

Heirloom

Heirloom [fr. h'res, Lat., heir, and geloma, Sax., goods], personal chattels, such as charters, deeds, and evidences of title, coat armor set up in a church, or a tombstone erected there, which go to the heir, together with the inheritance. The ancient jewels of the Crown are heirlooms. Heirlooms strictly so called are now rarely met with. See Williams on personal Property; Co. Litt. 18b, 185b; 2 Bl. Com. 428.The term 'heirlooms' is often applied in practice to the case where certain chattels--for example, pictures, plate, or furniture--are directed by will or settlement to follow the limitations thereby made of some family mansion or estate. But the word is not then employed in its strict and proper sense, nor is the disposition itself beyond a certain point effectual; for the Articles will, in such case, belong absolutely to the first person who, under the limitations of the settlement, becomes entitled to the real estate for a vested estate of inheritance; see Portman v. Viscount Po...

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 ...

Cotsethla, or consetle

Cotsethla, or consetle, the little seat or mansion belonging to a small farm...

Castel, or Castle

Castel, or Castle [fr. Castellum, dim. of castrum, Lat.], a fortress in a town; a principal mansion of a nobleman, Co. Litt. 31....

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....

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....

Roomy

Having ample room spacious large as a roomy mansion a roomy deck...

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