Such titles are legally classified as "incorporeal hereditaments" as they have no physical existence, and usually have no intrinsic value. Thus in effect the register is closed for new registrations. However any transfer of ownership of registered manors will continue to be recorded in the register, on the appropriate notification. The title of "Lord of the Manor" is recognised by the British Government for any such title registered at His Majesty's Land Registry before 13 October 2003 (the commencement date of the Land Registration Act 2002) but after that date titles can no longer be registered, and any such titles voluntarily de-registered by the holder cannot later be re-registered. The term "Lord of the Manor" is a recent usage of historians to distinguish such lords from feudal barons and other powerful persons referred to in ancient documents variously as "Sire" (mediaeval French), "Dominus" (Latin), "Lord" etc. The term invariably used in contemporary mediaeval documents is simply "lord of X", X being the name of the manor. To the tenants of a certain class of manor known in Saxon times as Infangenthef their lord was a man who had the power of exercising capital punishment over them. The title "Lord of the Manor" was a titular feudal dignity which derived its force from the existence and operation of a manorial court or court baron at which he or his steward presided, thus he was the lord of the manorial court which determined the rules and laws which were to govern all the inhabitants and property covered by the jurisdiction of the court. The substantive title of "lord of the manor" came into use in the English medieval system of feudalism after the Norman Conquest of 1066. A feudal baron was a true titular dignity, with the right to attend Parliament, but a feudal baron, Lord of the Manor of many manors, was a vassal of the King. Where a knight was a lord of the manor, he was referred to in contemporary documents as "John (Surname), knight, lord of (manor name)". For example, a man might be lord of the manor to his own tenants but also a vassal of his own overlord, who in turn was a vassal of the King. Neither of these terms were titular dignities, but rather factual appellations, which described the relationship between two or more persons within the highly stratified feudal social system. A liege lord was a person to whom a vassal owed sworn allegiance. The modern term " landlord" is a vestigial survival of this function. An overlord was a person from whom a landholding or a manor was held by a mesne lord or vassal under various forms of feudal land tenure. Under the feudal system, "lord" had a wide, loose and varied meaning. ![]() Main articles: Feudalism and English feudal baronies
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