I should have added a bit from the description. The 3rd part of half a 12th place contains 9 acres so it isn't really a small piece. Two others are a messuage or tenement and 18 acres. Another is 14 acres. I don't think the land was physically divided even though the ownership was shared by three different people. In many cases a house was involved and that wasn't physically divided. I don't know if the leaseholder had to negotiate with three different owners or how a lease was agreed on. It seems to be very complicated and I haven't gotten ahold of enough leases for the same time period to really make sense of it. I don't think "place" was a measurement because when it is divided into 1/3rds they say part (pt) whereas 12th place seems to be used like a name. I think the estate manager had a real job keeping track of all of this. Rodney Stoke was just a small part of the holdings of the Buckinghams and Bulkeleys. Donna At 12:00 AM 12/6/2013, you wrote: >this will describe a portion of land . A moiety >could be one third of the land, and to break that down into 12ths , or in >this case , one third of a 24th place so probably a very small piece of >land . It all depends on the original wording of the lease and who got what >and over how many lives or years or both . Think medieval strip farming >each field divided into small strips of land so that each person got >something .