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Baronia

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Baronatus.

L. Lat. [from baro, q. v.] In old English law.

A barony

The dignity, territory, patrimony or fee of a baron. Spelman, voc.

Baro. Co. Litt. 83 b.

A manor, or the territory of a manor. Spelman, ub. sup. A house of a certain kind in London. Id. A part of a county corresponding with a hundred. Id. Caput baroniae; the head of a barony; the castle or chief house of the baron. Id.

See Barony.