Hi Fred, if you type www.google.com and enter manor definition you get plenty to chew on: the mansion of a lord or wealthy person the landed estate of a lord (including the house on it) wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Manorialism or Seigneurialism describes the organization of rural economy and society in medieval western and parts of central Europe, characterised by the vesting of legal and economic power in a lord supported economically from his own direct landholding and from the obligatory contributions of a legally subject part of the peasant population under his jurisdiction. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manor A small holding, typically from 1,200 to 1,800 acres, with its own court and probably its own hall, but not necessarily having a manor house. The manor as a unit of land was generally held by a knight (knight's fee) or managed by a bailiff for some other holder. www.renaissancemagazine.com/glossary/glossaryk-o.html an agricultural estate under the control of a single individual or lord. campus.northpark.edu/history/WebChron/Glossary/Glossary.index.html manerium, mansio Equivalent to a single holding, with its own court and probably its own hall, but not necessarily a manor house as we think of it. The manor was the basic unit of Domesday. www.domesdaybook.co.uk/glossary.html The granting of land with a demense, peasants and lands considered requisite to sustain a minor noble. The demense was the lord’s personal land, providing for their needs, while the land worked by the peasants provided additional income or food consumed by the lord or his retainers. www.chronique.com/Library/Glossaries/glossary-KCT/gloss_m.htm mansion or main house on an estate, as in: He returned to the ancestral manor every spring. www.business-words.com/dictionary/M.html In medieval England, an estate (unit of land) under the jurisdiction of a lord of the manor. Usually, part of the manor, known as the demesne, was retained by the lord for his own profit, while the remainder was granted to tenants in return either for rent or for services such as cultivating his demesne and attending the manorial court. www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/pathways/citizenship/glossary.htm Estate held by a lord and farmed by tenants who owed him rents and services, and whose relations with him were governed by his manorial court. The unit of territorial lordship, not necessarily coinciding witht eh village or hamlet, often but not invariably containing three elements: demesne, free tenures and customary tenures. home.olemiss.edu/~tjray/medieval/feudal.htm An estate held by a Lord or Lady of the Manor, consisting of demesne land belonging specifically to the Lord and various holdings let out to tenants, the whole being governed by a manorial court according to customs established since time immemorial. The estate did not necessarily form a contiguous geographical area. freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~alefounder/ManorialTerms.html A group of lands, not necessarily geographically contiguous, managed as an economic and administrative unit. Typically between 500 and 3000 acres in size, the manor is controlled by a lord who, if not the king, holds the estate by some form of land tenure from another lord. If this lord is not the king, he or she in turn holds from yet another lord, and so on until the second-to-last lord in the chain holds from the king. ... www.aedificium.org/Glossary.html The district over which the court of a Lord of the Manor had authority www.rotherhamweb.co.uk/site/glossary.htm Linda Merle