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Definition of Manors
1. manor [n] - See also: manor
Lexicographical Neighbors of Manors
Literary usage of Manors
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reportsby Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1882)
"The 8th section had confirmed to the proprietors, forever, the quit-rents reserved
in the manors. The 9th, which was intended to abolish all quit-rents on ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"manors.—manors are in substance as ancient as the Saxon constitution, though
perhaps differing a little, in some immaterial circumstances, from those that ..."
3. The English Village Community Examined in Its Relations to the Manorial and by Frederic Seebohm (1905)
"I. THERE WERE manors EVERYWHERE. CHAP. m. IN the Domesday Survey, as might be
expected from the evidence of the foregoing chapter, the unit of inquiry is ..."
4. Publications by Hampshire Record Society, Winchester, Winchester Hampshire Record Society, American peace society, Algernon Sidney Crapsey, Ernest Howard Crosby, W. Evans Darby, John Hyde De Forest, Charles Edward Jefferson, Augustine Jones, Mrs. L. J. Mead, J. H. Ral (1895)
"This is obtained from a very interesting Stock-book of the Convent's manors,
giving not only the sound stock, but also " the worthless (Kebbi) or damaged ..."
5. The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century by Herbert Levi Osgood (1904)
"In Maryland, prior to 1676, about sixty manors were erected, containing on an
average about three thousand acres each.2 As the special manorial privileges ..."
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