Introduction
Preliminary note: what is a
manor?
Chapter 1: The manor and the feudal system
Land tenure following the Conquest
Free tenures
Knight service
Serjeanty
Frankalmoin
Socage tenure
Free tenures subject to custom
Incidents of free tenures
Homage and fealty
Suit of court
Relief and primer
seisin
Aids
Wardship and marriage
Escheat and forfeiture
The manor
Tenants of the manor
The position of the unfree tenant
Characteristics of the manor
Leases
Early changes to the law of tenures
Qui emptores 1290
Chapter 2: Manorial institutions
Manorial agrciulture
Open fields
Meadows
Waste land
Assarts and other
enclosures
Manorial officers and organisation
Justice and the manor
The Norman legal
system
Manor courts
Honour courts
The rise of royal
justice
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
Conversion into freehold
Manorial incidents
abolished
Rights and liabilities
permanently preserved
Other matters
Treatment of freehold land
Grand and petty serjeanty
Royal manors
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Chapter 5: The manor today
The legal nature of a manor
Land forming part of a manor
Demesne land
Waste land
Roads and other odd
pieces of land
The beds of rivers,
streams and lakes
The seashore and
foreshore
Adverse possession
Profits a prendre and easements
Profits a prendre
Easements
Mineral rights over former copyhold land
Customary law
Public rights of way
Regulation of common land
Franchises
Other manorial matters
The name of a manor
Title of the lord
Honorary services
associated with serjeanty
Stewards
Bailiffs
Courts
Manorial documents
Reputed manors
The manor in practice
Chapter 6: Commons
What land is affected?
The Commons Acts 1876 to 1908
The Commons Act 1876
The Commons Act 1899
The Commons Act 1908
Other measures
The Law of Property Act 1925, sections 193 and
194
Section 193
Section 194
The Commons Registration Act 1965
Background
Application of the
Act
Registration of ownership
Other interests which
can be registered
Procedure
Relationship with
the Land Registration Acts
Exemptions from the
1965 Act
The Common Land (Rectification of Registers)
Act 1989
Powers of local authorities
Vehicles on commons
The lord of the manor and common land
Chapter 7: Minerals
The right to minerals
Minerals belonging to the Crown and public bodies
Gold and silver
Coal
Oil
Rights of the lord of the manor
Ownership of land
Separate rights to
minerals
Customary rights to minerals
Laws applying in particular areas
Devon and Cornwall
Gloucestershire
Derbyshire
Statutory regulation of mining
The Mines (Working Facilities and Support) Acts
1966 and 1974
Establishing what mineral rights exist.
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Chapter 8: Franchises
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
Chapter 9: Sporting rights
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
Bibliography
Useful addresses
Table of authorities
Index
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