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The Law of the Manor

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The Law of the Manor now in its third edition, is the definitive work on the subject. The author provides detailed and comprehensive coverage for practitioners. Those owning, managing, selling, or buying historic houses and estates will also find the book of value; delivering as it does a modern description of the law associated with lordships of the manor.

 

Principally concerned with the lands and rights of lords, the book also considers rights that can be claimed against them. These are put in context with a discussion of associated topics such as franchises and titles of nobility.

 

This new edition has been substantially revised. There is a new chapter on the Land Registration Act 2002 and extended coverage of manorial mineral and sporting rights, of roadside verges and of the lost ways which are expected to lose public status in 2031. The book takes account of the House of Commons Justice Committee Report in 2015. It considers several recent cases including Wynne-Finch v Natural Resources Body for Wales [2021] EWCA Civ 1473, R (Littlejohns), v Devon County Council [2016] EWCA Civ 446, Southwark Borough Council v Transport for London [2018] UKSC 63, and R (Strack) v Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs [2024] EWCA Civ 420.

 

New material has been included on the conversion of waste of the manor to occupied land, roadside verges and town and village greens. There is also greater coverage of legal authorities including over fifty decisions since the first edition and a selection of useful precedents for the practitioner.

 

The text is arranged in five parts. Part 1 describes the context, summarises the history and analyses custom which is the basis of manorial law. Part 2 describes the lands of tenants and lords and the relations between them. Part 3 discusses rights and comprises a detailed commentary on section 62(3) of the Law of Property Act 1925. The book covers rights of common, mineral, and sporting rights, courts and remaining revenues. Part 4 sets the manor in the context of other institutions, namely the church, towns and feudal relationships. Part 5 summarises and looks at the modern manor, its documents, conveyancing (with particular reference to registered land) and taxation, concluding with suggestions for reform.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9780854903054
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-85490-305-4
  • Verlag: Wildy & Sons
  • Erscheinungstermin: 12.11.2024
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 3. Auflage 2024
  • Produktform: Gebunden
  • Gewicht: 1000 g
  • Seiten: 612
  • Format (B x H): 152 x 229 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
  • Vorauflage: 978-0-85490-110-4
Autoren/Hrsg.

Autoren

Christopher Jessel joined Farrer & Co in 1967 and retired as a partner in 2008. He has practiced in rural, constitutional and charity law and is the author of several legal textbooks.

Preface to Third Edition

Introduction

Principal Sources

Table of Statutes and Other Laws

Table of Statutory Instruments

Table of Cases

List of Abbreviations

Glossary

PART I - ROOTS

1        Description and History

1.1     The manor as an idea and a place

1.2     Domesday Book and after

1.3     Farmland

1.4     Buildings

1.5     Waste and outliers

1.6     Size

1.7     Variety

1.8     Manor and village

1.9     Decline

2        Custom

2.1     Custom and the manor

2.2     Local

2.3     Ancient and continuous

2.4     Reasonable

2.5     Certain

2.6     Services

2.7     Inheritance and disposition

2.8     Enjoyment

2.9     Extinction of custom

PART II - LANDS

3        Freehold and Copyhold

3.1     Nature of copyhold

3.2     Tenure

3.3     Certain and uncertain tenure

3.4     Free and unfree tenure

3.5     Common and customary tenure

3.6     Surrender and admittance

3.6.1       Title to copyholds

3.6.2       New copyholds

3.6.3       Leases of copyholds

3.6.4       Acquisition of copyhold by lord

3.7     Enfranchisement

3.7.1       Common law enfranchisement

3.7.2       Statutory enfranchisement 1841 to 1925

3.7.3       The Law of Property Act 1922

3.7.4       Preserved rights

3.8     Tenures today

4        The Lands of the Lord

4.1     Demesne and other land

4.2     Management and leases

4.3     Waste and commons registration

4.3.1       Meaning of waste

4.3.2       The Commons Registration Act 1965

4.3.3       The Commons Act 2006

4.4     Types of waste

4.5     Balks

4.6     Unclaimed land of unknown lords

4.6.1       Title

4.7     Loss of waste

5        Parcels and Escheat

5.1     Limits of the manor

5.2     Outliers and distributed lands

5.3     Subinfeudation and Quia Emptores 1290

5.4     Rule against enlarging manor

5.5     Rule against land reverting to manor

5.6     Escheat

5.6.1       Former copyhold land

5.6.2       Escheat as reverter

5.6.3       Operation of escheat

6        Inclosure

6.1     Nature of inclosure

6.2     Unilateral inclosure

6.2.1       Approvement and assarting

6.2.2       Commonable fields

6.2.3       Adverse possession

6.3     Inclosure by agreement

6.4     General statutory inclosure

6.5     Piecemeal statutory inclosure

6.6     Private and public rights

6.7     Hedges in inclosure acts

7        Legal and Reputed

7.1     Creation and acquisition of manors

7.2     Proving the manor

7.3     Division by operation of law

7.4     Dissolution

7.4.1       Loss of lordship

7.4.2       Loss of tenants

7.4.3       Separation

7.5     Reputed manors

PART III - RIGHTS

8        Manorial Rights

8.1     Rights and the manor

8.2     Corporeal and incorporeal

8.2.1       Incorporeal hereditaments

8.2.2       The Law of Property Act 1925 s 62(3)

8.3     Property and possession, substance and revenue

8.4     Incidents, appurtenances and other rights

8.5     Manorial or seigniorial rights

8.5.1       In general

8.5.2       In inclosure acts

8.5.3       On enfranchisement

8.5.4       Profits and easements

8.6     Conclusion

9        Commons and Greens

9.1     Common land

9.2     Background to reform

9.3     The current legislation

9.3.1       The Commons Registration Act 1965

9.3.2       The Commons Act 2006

9.4     Creation, acquisition and extinction

9.4.1       The old law

9.4.2       The modern law

9.5     Common and related rights classified

9.5.1       By content of right

9.5.2       By entitlement

9.5.2.1    Legal

9.5.2.2    Customary

9.5.2.3    Contractual

9.5.2.4    Tolerance

9.5.2.5    Equitable

9.5.2.6    Quantification

9.5.3       Lot meadows and regulated pastures

9.5.4       By benefit

9.5.4.1    Appendant

9.5.4.2    Appurtenant

9.5.4.3    In gross

9.5.4.4    Pur cause de vicinage

9.6     Commonable rights

9.7     Rights of the lord

9.8     Regulation

9.9     Public access and conservation

9.9.1       Early statutory access

9.9.2       The Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000

9.10  Town and village greens

9.10.1     Greens under local acts

9.10.2     Traditional greens

9.10.3     Modern greens

9.10.4     Local and as of right

9.11  Management of greens

10      Roads and Paths

10.1  Ownership of roads and ways

10.1.1     Common law

10.1.2     Copyholds

10.1.3     Inclosure acts

10.1.4     General acts

10.1.5     Rights and duties

10.1.6     Roadside verges

10.1.7     Liability for trees

10.2  Maintenance and tolls

10.2.1     Common law

10.2.2     Statute

10.2.3     Private roads

10.3  Summary on ownership and maintenance of roads

10.4  Routes across common land

10.5  Lost ways

10.6  Customary ways and churchways

10.7  Bridges

11       Minerals and Timber

11.1  Rights to wood and minerals

11.2  Trees

11.3  Estovers, botes, furze and turbary

11.4  Tenants’ mineral rights in the waste

11.5  Express, customary and nationalised rights

11.5.1     Meaning of minerals

11.5.2     Nationalised minerals

11.6  Ownership of void

11.7  Lord’s minerals in owned or disposed land

11.7.1     Demesne

11.7.2     Uninclosed waste

11.7.3     Inclosed waste

11.7.4     Shares in external land

11.8  Annexures and appurtenances

11.9  Copyhold land

11.9.1     Nature of copyhold minerals

11.9.2     Rights of access and working

11.9.3     Shall not affect

11.9.4     Exceptions on enfranchisement

11.10 Conclusion

12      Sporting

12.1  Sporting and wild animals

12.2  Forest, chase and park

12.3  Free warren

12.4  Sporting in copyhold land

12.5  Sporting on demesne and uninclosed waste

12.6  Sporting on inclosed waste

12.7  Hunting

12.8  The Game Laws

12.9  Conclusion

13      Waters and Fishing

13.1  Rivers

13.2  Foreshore and seabed

13.3  Fishing

13.3.1     Inland waters

13.3.2     Tidal waters

13.3.3     Statutory fisheries

13.4  Ports and harbours

13.5  Anchorage and mooring

13.6  Ferries

13.7  Wreck

14      Courts

14.1  Courts baron and customary

14.2  Courts leet

14.3  Hundred courts

14.4  Time and place

14.5  Procedure

14.6  The Administration of Justice Act 1977

14.7  Officers

15      Rents and Revenues

15.1  Nature of manorial revenues

15.2  Court payments

15.3  Reliefs and heriots

15.4  Transmission fines and royalties

15.5  Rentcharges and rents seck

15.6  Rentservices – chief, assize, quit and fee farm

15.7  Wayleaves

15.8  Tolls

16      Franchises

16.1  Nature of franchises

16.2  Types of franchise

16.2.1     Palatinates

16.2.2     Treasure

16.2.3     Royal mines

16.2.4     Courts

16.2.5     Liberties

16.2.6     Waifs

16.2.7     Deodands

16.2.8     Animals, birds and fish

16.2.9     Goods of suicides

16.2.10   Created rights

16.2.11   Legal personality

16.3  Creation and extinction

16.3.1     Creation

16.3.2     Presumed grant

16.3.3     Extinction

16.3.4     Merger in Crown rights

17      Miscellaneous Rights

17.1  Seigniorial rights

17.1.1     Mills and mulctures

17.1.2     Ale and ovens

17.1.3     Maiden right

17.2  Appointments

17.3  Covenants

17.4  Works

17.5  Ceremonial renders

18      Fealty and Protection

18.1  Homage and fealty

18.2  Allegiance

18.3  Warranty

18.4  Grand and petty sergeanty

19      Parish and Church

19.1  Manor and parish

19.2  Advowsons

19.3  Appropriate and impropriate rectories

19.4  Chancel repairs

19.5  New church buildings on common land

19.6  Glebe and other land

19.7  Rectorial manors

19.8  Consecrated land

19.9  Churchways

19.10 Schools

19.11 Tithe, modus and corn rents

19.12 Frankalmoign and episcopal property

20      Towns and Trade

20.1  Towns and boroughs

20.2  Markets

20.3  Open places and streets

20.4  Houses

20.5  Corporations, trusts and charity

21      Fees, Honours and Estates

21.1  Feudalism

21.2  Derivative titles to land

21.3  Honours

21.4  Knights’ fees and feudal incidents

21.5  Complications of tenure

21.6  Legal estates

21.7  Landed estates

22      Lords and Titles

22.1  Hereditary peers

22.2  Life peers

22.3  Knights, gentlemen and honourable

23      Royal Demesne

23.1  Crown estate

23.2  Royal residences and parks

23.3  Purprestures

23.4  East Greenwich and other lordships of sold lands

23.5  Registration of title to royal demesne

23.6  The Royal Duchies

23.7  Parliamentary manors

23.8  Ancient demesne

23.9  Changes affecting royal manors

24      Beyond England

24.1  Wales

24.2  Scotland

24.3  Ireland

24.4  North America

PART V - CONCLUSION

25      Rolls and Unregistered Title

25.1  Evidence of rights

25.2  Manorial rolls

25.3  Other manorial documents

25.4  Ownership and custody

25.5  Title deeds

26      Registered Land

26.1  General principles

26.2  Land

26.3  Manors

26.4  Rentcharges

26.5  Franchises

26.5.1     Registration with its own title

26.5.2     As overriding interest

26.6  Customary and public rights

26.6.1     Public rights

26.6.2     Customary rights

26.6.3     Town and village greens

26.7  Easements and profits

26.7.1     Rights of common

26.7.1.1 In general

26.7.1.2 Registered before 1965

26.7.2     Easements and profits under inclosure acts or on enfranchisement

26.7.3     Transitional provisions for land registered before 2003

26.7.4     Land first registered after 2003

26.7.5     Registrable profits in gross

26.7.6     Rights of way over downgraded or former highways

26.8  Ancient rights

26.8.1     The pre-2003 law

26.8.2     The Land Registration Act 2002 transitional provisions

26.8.3     Priority

26.8.4     Transitional non-manorial rights

26.9  Manorial rights

26.9.1     Meaning within the Land Registration Act 2002

26.9.2     Entering on the register

26.9.3     The Justice Committee report

26.10 Transitional rights after 2013

26.11 Human rights

26.12 Minerals

26.12.1   Exceptions and grants of strata

26.12.2   Associated rights

26.12.3   Profit of minerals

26.12.4   Lord’s rights in enfranchised land

26.13 Escheat

26.14 Conveyancing and disputes

26.14.1   Duty to disclose

26.14.2   Information

26.14.3   Old cautions

26.14.4   Disputes

27      Buying and Selling

27.1  The market in manors

27.2  Agents

27.3  Lawyers

27.4  Title

27.5  Terms and conditions of sale

27.6  Taxation

28      Definition

28.1  Jurisprudence of the manor

28.2  Philosophy

28.3  Historical understanding

28.4  Ownership and public law

28.5  Whether the manor is land

28.6  Conclusion

Appendices

1        Precedents

2        Extracts from Statutes

Index