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Appendant :: Appendant (v. t.) Appended by prescription, that is, a personal usage for a considerable time; -- said of a thing of inheritance belonging to another inheritance which is superior or more worthy; as, an advowson, common, etc. , which may be appendant to a manor, common of fishing to a freehold, a seat in church to a house..

Manor :: Manor (n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services..

Town :: Town (adv. & prep.) Formerly: (a) An inclosure which surrounded the mere homestead or dwelling of the lord of the manor. [Obs.] (b) The whole of the land which constituted the domain. [Obs.] (c) A collection of houses inclosed by fences or walls.

Barton :: Barton (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself..

Manor :: Manor (n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family..

Thane :: Thane (n.) A dignitary under the Anglo-Saxons and Danes in England. Of these there were two orders, the king's thanes, who attended the kings in their courts and held lands immediately of them, and the ordinary thanes, who were lords of manors and who had particular jurisdiction within their limits. After the Conquest, this title was disused, and baron took its place..

Thirdings :: Thirdings (n. pl.) The third part of the corn or grain growing on the ground at the tenant's death, due to the lord for a heriot, as within the manor of Turfat in Herefordshire..

Seigniory :: Seigniory (n.) The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor.

Tolsester :: Tolsester (n.) A toll or tribute of a sextary of ale, paid to the lords of some manors by their tenants, for liberty to brew and sell ale..

Court-leet :: Court-leet (n.) A court of record held once a year, in a particular hundred, lordship, or manor, before the steward of the leet..

Infangthef :: Infangthef (n.) The privilege granted to lords of certain manors to judge thieves taken within the seigniory of such lords.

Soc :: Soc (n.) An exclusive privilege formerly claimed by millers of grinding all the corn used within the manor or township which the mill stands.

Cane :: Cane (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans..

Demesne :: Demesne (n.) A lord's chief manor place, with that part of the lands belonging thereto which has not been granted out in tenancy; a house, and the land adjoining, kept for the proprietor's own use..

Mansion :: Mansion (n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.

Survey :: Survey (v. t.) To examine and ascertain, as the boundaries and royalties of a manor, the tenure of the tenants, and the rent and value of the same..

Dryfland :: Dryfland (n.) An ancient yearly payment made by some tenants to the king, or to their landlords, for the privilege of driving their cattle through a manor to fairs or markets..

Toll :: Toll (n.) A liberty to buy and sell within the bounds of a manor.

Regardant :: Regardant (v. t.) Annexed to the land or manor; as, a villain regardant..

Landlord :: Landlord (n.) The lord of a manor, or of land; the owner of land or houses which he leases to a tenant or tenants..

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