Manor

In American law

A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a fee-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes in the performance of certain stipulated services. In the province of New York, large tracts of land were granted as manors, with all the manorial rights and incidents.

In English law

A feudal estate with the right to hold a court-baron, granted to a lord or other great person, who kept to himself such parts of the land as were necessary for bis own use, which were called terroe dominicales or demesne lands, and distributed the rest, called terrce tenementales or bocland, to tenants who held in free-