History of the "Lordship of the Manor"

Liberty 100 is selling genuine restored lordships of the manor titles. Not titles that are made up, We can only sell a title that once existed and has fallen into disuse. Every title has existed so has history of varying depths.

Manorialsm dates back to the Norman Conquest and lasted through to the 20th Century when legal changes meant that the Titles were one of the last elements to remain.

Manors were created as part of the manorial system that William the Conqueror brought over with him from Normandy:

Legal Ownership

• A Manor was made up of physical land and a seigniory (rights package - to fish, to take minerals from the ground to use the titles Lord and Lady, etc.)
• Land was transferred using a system called Copyhold (a copy of the paperwork was kept by each party giving "proof of ownership")
• Deeds kept going missing and Lords died without natural heirs, so various laws were introduced to ensure "proof of ownership" could be made in all circumstances
• The law protecting physical land has continued but the law protecting the "proof of ownership" of rights, became very confusing
• On close inspection all law protecting the loss of "proof of ownership" of rights has been repealed, the last going in 1986
• Legal Professionals sometimes forgot or did not regard them as worthy of mention, the rights that should have been transferred with the physical land
• It is believed that 27,000 Manors existed in 1922 when the rights were separated from the physical land by statute but only a few of these now have "proof of ownership"
• Only two cases have been judged over the legal ownership of rights to manorial titles.  The first enabled a claiming owner to bridge the gap in their deeds due to the manorial titles having been owned by the Crown at different times in its existence.  The second December 2010 clarified that both Adverse Possession and Prescription (with Lost Modern Grant) were not viable legal remedies to prove ownership of a manorial title.  The first case being a rare set of circumstances and a court would need to decide if those circumstances are appropriate if they are to be used again.

Legal Possession of Rights (Manorial Titles)

•  Legal Possession of rights existed first in 300AD introduced by the Romans
•  Legal Possession of rights was brought into English Common Law
•  Legal Possession of rights could be converted into ownership by statues defining the number of years legal possession had to have existed
•  Cases arguing over the possessory rights of Manorial Titles do not exist and therefore a common law of 1,000 years of age is the only argument

To understand how this history of manorial title law converts into modern times and the solution I offer here please go the "Title Law" page under FAQ.