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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
Mansa or Mansum
Mansa or Mansum, a mansion or house, Spelm.
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.
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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
Hide of Land
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,
Curtilage
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
Heirloom
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
Barton, Berton, or Burton
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
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.
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