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    Manorialism, also known as seigneurialism, the manor system or manorial system, was the method of land ownership (or "tenure") in parts of Europe, notably...
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    The manorial courts were the lowest courts of law in England during the feudal period. They had a civil jurisdiction limited both in subject matter and...
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    to the English feudal (specifically Baronial) system. The lord enjoyed manorial rights (the rights to establish and occupy a residence, known as the manor...
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    A manorial roll or court roll is the roll or record kept of the activities of a manorial court, in particular containing entries relating to the rents...
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  • The Manorial Society of Great Britain Limited is a private limited company (by Guarantee) and incorporated on 30 December 1996. It has a membership of...
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    within its great hall were usually held the lord's manorial courts, communal meals with manorial tenants and great banquets. The term is today loosely...
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  • Custumal (redirect from Manorial Custumals)
    with a local code of laws, a summary of oral sworn tradition, in-house manorial rolls and written legal arrangements between the landlord and his tenants...
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    (fisherman) Weber, occupation (weaver) Meyer, occupation (originally a manorial landlord, later a self-employed farmer) Wagner, occupation (wainwright)...
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    increasingly powerful landed nobility that confined the population to private manorial farmsteads, or folwarks. In 1493, John I Albert sanctioned the creation...
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    "cattle", "money" and "power". European feudalism had its roots in the Roman manorial system (in which workers were compensated with protection while living...
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