MANOR (French, memoir). A house, res idence, or habitation. It includes not only a dwelling-house, but also lands. See Co. Litt.
58, 108 ; 2 Rolle, Abr. 121; Merlin, Revert, Manoir; Serg. Land Laws of Penn. 195 ; 11 H. L. Cas. 83.
Manor is also said to be derived originally either from Lat. manendo, remaining, or from Brit. maer, stones, being the place marked out or inclosed by stones. Webst.
In English Law. A tract of land original ly granted by the king to a person of rank, part of .which (term tenementales) was giv en by the grantee or lord of the manor to his followers. The rest he retained under the name of his demesnes (terrce dominical es). That which remained uncultivated was called the lord's waste, and served for pub lic 'roads, and commons of pasture for the lord and his tenants. The whole fee was called a lordship, or barony, and the court appendant to the manor the court-baron. The tenants, in respect to their relation to this court and to each other were called pares eurice; in relation to the tenure of their lands, copyholders (q. ix), as holding
by a copy of the record in the lord's court.
Originally a manor was a "highly complex and organized aggregate of corporeal and incorporeal things. It usually involved the lordship over villeins and the right to seize their chattels. It was not a bare tract of land, but a complex made up of land and of a great part of the agricultural capital that worked the land, men and beasts, ploughs and carts, forks and flails." 2 Poll. & M. 143, 148.
The franchise of a manor ; i. e. the right to jurisdiction and rents and services of copyholders. Cowell. No new manors were created in England after the prohibition of sub-infeudation by stat. Quia Emptores, in 1290. 1 Washb. R. P. 30.
See Pollock, Oxf. Lect. 112 ; 5 L. Q. R. 113 ; Engl. Encycl. (Manorial Jurisdiction) ; Ex