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A. W. & C. Barsby: Legal Research and
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Manorial Law: Contents
This page summarises the contents of our book "Manorial Law", ISBN 0 9521625 2 0, published 1996. To see the Notes and Queries for a chapter, click on the chapter heading, or use the buttons at the top right and bottom left of the page.
Chapter 1 - The manor and the feudal system
Land tenure following the Conquest - Free tenures - Free tenures subject to custom - Incidents of free tenures - The manor - Tenants of the manor - The position of the unfree tenant - Characteristics of the manor - Leases - Early changes to the law of tenures - statute Quia Emptores 1290
Chapter 2- Manorial institutions
Manorial agrciulture - Manorial officers and organisation - Justice and the manor - Manorial documents
Chapter 3 - Later changes: 14th to 19th centuries
The emergence of copyhold tenure - Recognition of copyhold by the common law - Reform of free tenures - Enclosure -Enfranchisement of copyholds
Chapter 4 - The legal reforms of the 1920s
Outline - Treatment of copyhold land - Treatment of freehold land - Grand and petty serjeanty - Royal manors - Land tenure after the reforms of the 1920s
The legal nature of a manor - Land forming part of a manor - Profits a prendre and easements - Mineral rights over former copyhold land - Customary law - Public rights of way - Regulation of common land - Franchises - Other manorial matters - Reputed manors - The manor in practice
What land is affected? - The Commons Acts 1876 to 1908 - The Law of Property Act 1925, sections 193 and 194 - The Commons Registration Act 1965 - The Common Land (Rectification of Registers) Act 1989 - Powers of local authorities - Vehicles on commons - The lord of the manor and common land
The right to minerals - Minerals belonging to the Crown and public bodies -Rights of the lord of the manor - Customary rights to minerals - Laws applying in particular areas - Statutory regulation of mining - The Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Acts 1966 and 1974 - Establishing what mineral rights exist.
The legal nature of franchises - Acquisition, transfer and loss of franchises - Markets and fairs - Courts leet - Treasure trove -Wreck - Mines - Waifs and estrays - Royal fish and swans - Franchises no longer capable of existing - Game franchises - Deodands - Establishing whether franchises exist
Legal nature of sporting rights - The Game Laws - The right to game and the manor - Fishing rights generally - Coastal and tidal waters - Inland waters - Establishing what sporting rights exist
Chapter 10 - Transfers; Manorial documents
TRANSFERS - Method of transfer - Proof of ownership - Registration of manors and manorial rights - The Property Misdescriptions Act 1991. MANORIAL DOCUMENTS - The right to dispose of manorial documents - Section 144A of the Law of Property Act 1922 - The Manorial Documents Rules 1959 - Access to manorial documents - Manorial documents as evidence - Establishing whether manorial documents exist
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