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==Types== {{Feudal status}} Historically a lord of the manor could either be a [[tenant-in-chief]] if he held a capital manor directly from [[English Crown|the Crown]], or a [[mesne lord]] if he was the [[vassal]] of another lord.<ref>{{cite book |chapter=mesne lord |first=David |last=Hey |title=The Oxford Dictionary of Local and Family History |publisher=Oxford University Press |year=1997 |isbn=978-0-19-860080-0 |access-date=24 August 2011 |chapter-url=http://www.oxfordreference.com/views/ENTRY.html?subview=Main&entry=t45.e945 |doi= 10.1093/acref/9780198600800.001.0001}}</ref> The origins of the lordship of manors arose in the [[Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon system]] of [[manorialism]]. Following the [[Norman Conquest]], land at the manorial level was recorded in the [[Domesday Book]] of 1086<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.landreg.gov.uk/assets/library/documents/bhist-lr.pdf |title=A Short History of Land Registration in England and Wales |page=3 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071118184323/http://www.landreg.gov.uk/assets/library/documents/bhist-lr.pdf |archive-date=18 November 2007}}</ref> (the Normans' registry in [[Kingdom of Sicily|Sicily]] was called, in [[Latin]], the ''[[Catalogus Baronum]]'', compiled a few years later). The title cannot nowadays be subdivided.<ref name="Land Registry Practice Guide 22"/> This has been prohibited since 1290 by the statute of ''[[Quia Emptores]]'' that prevents [[Tenement (law)|tenants]] from [[Alienation (property law)|alienating]] their lands to others by [[subinfeudation]], instead requiring all tenants wishing to alienate their land to do so by [[:wikt:substitution|substitution]].<ref>{{ cite book | title=An historical introduction to the land law |pages=105β106 |author=Sir William Searle |year=2002 |publisher=The Lawbook Exchange |isbn=9781584772620 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NscKQr-aqNIC&q=substitution&pg=PA105}}</ref> [[Alfred Denning, Baron Denning|Lord Denning]], in ''Corpus Christi College Oxford v Gloucestershire County Council'' [1983] QB 360, described the manor thus: {{blockquote|In medieval times the manor was the nucleus of English rural life. It was an administrative unit of an extensive area of land. The whole of it was owned originally by the lord of the manor. He lived in the big house called the manor house. Attached to it were many acres of grassland and woodlands called the park. These were the "demesne lands" which were for the personal use of the lord of the manor. Dotted all round were the enclosed homes and land occupied by the "tenants of the manor".}}
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