Definition of Manor

Man´or
n.1.(Eng. Law) 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.
My manors, rents, revenues, l forego.
- Shak.
2.(American Law) 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.
Manor house
the house belonging to a manor; the house of the lord of the manor; a manse.


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acres, chateau, chattels real, demesne, grounds, honor, landed property, lands, lot, lots, messuage, parcel, plat, plot, praedium, quadrat, real estate, real property, realty, tenements, toft

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