Barony
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Lat. baronia, baronatus.] In English law. The dignity of a baron. Spelman, voc.
Baronia
A species of tenure. To hold by barony anciently meant to hold lands by the service of attending the king in his courts, as barons; or, according to Spelman, to be a baron of the realm, {esse baro regni.) Id. P, Cyclopoedia. The territory of a baron, or the lands which form his tenancy. Id. A barony sometimes consisted of several manors, the chief of which was called caput barcnim.
Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 72.
See Baronia, Caput baronicB,