Manorial

This system, this economic side of feudalism, is what we know as the manorial system. ❋ George Burton Adams (1888)

Thus it was that toward 1215, or pretty nearly contemporaneously with the epoch when men like Grosseteste began to show restlessness under the extortionate corruption of the Church, the villein was discovered to be able to defend his claim to some portion of the increment in the value of the land which he tilled and which was due to his labor: and this title the manorial courts recognized, because they could not help it, as a sort of tenant right, calling it a customary tenancy by base service. ❋ Brooks Adams (1887)

In short, in Ireland the ownership is dual: the landlord is merely the lord of a quasi-copyhold manor, consisting of numerous small tenements held by quasi-copyholders who, so long as they pay what may be called the manorial rents, and fulfil the manorial conditions, regard themselves as independent owners of their holdings. ❋ Henry Thring Thring (1862)

Both in the English and in the French Revolutions the property question presented itself in such wise that it seemed to be imperative to enforce free competition and to effect the abolition of all feudal property relations, such as manorial rights, guilds, monopolies, which had been transformed into fetters upon the industry which was developing between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. ❋ Karl Marx (1850)

And that defeats librettist da Ponte's careful working of class divisions within a single manorial household. ❋ Donna Perlmutter (2010)

The subtenants of the manorial estates and great farms ❋ Unknown (2010)

On the main square, across from the manorial fa ç ade of Courvoisier, at the Restaurant du Ch â teau, chef and owner Ludovic Merle is serving fine cuisine from regional products. ❋ Lennox Morrison (2011)

The villeins of the manorial estates, of the great farms, the mines, and the forests. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Liz Hart, from the National Advisory Service, provides an introduction to the various types of manorial records and offers a practical guide to using the Manorial Documents Register. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He intended to work on the book at Falaise, the Guggenheim manorial estate on Sands Point, Long Island. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Mary's receipt of the castle and its surrounding estates was like, Hunsdon and Newhall, a significant manorial expression of her exalted royal status. ❋ Unknown (2008)

He is learned in old manorial and communal rights, and he applies his knowledge sometimes in favour of the villagers of Fernworthy and sometimes against them, so that he is periodically either carried in triumph down the village street or else burned in effigy, according to his latest exploit. ❋ Unknown (2010)

They grew and raised their own food, as well as what was needed for barter, and exercised total manorial control of their island from 1639 until 1788, when it was annexed to East Hampton. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Most woods were gated and padlocked against carts, and the manorial court records show frequent instances of fines for stealing under-wood. ❋ Roger Deakin (2009)

Starting with descriptions and analyses of the agrarian systems, Weber explores the manorial system, guilds, and early capitalism as developed on plantations and other estates. ❋ Unknown (2009)

In addition to this legislation, landowners began to enforce their manorial privileges strictly, making certain that they received their full amount of "villein dues, and in particular labour obligations" (Saul, 60). ❋ Unknown (2007)

Is Quigley supposed to quail and quake like some feudal serf before the manorial lord? ❋ Unknown (2009)

[Pigman] slowly [eased] his [turgid] member into Madmike's anal opening, immediately pressing upon his manoris and giving Madmike the best orgasm he'd had since the great post-a-picture related mass-banning of 2004. ❋ Becy (2005)