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Advowson
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the legal right to appoint a priest to a parish church
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Agistment
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the grazing of livestock on pasture belonging to someone else.
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Alienate
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to grant land to someone else or to an institution.
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Assart
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land cleared for cultivation.
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Assize
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a legal procedure
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Barony
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the estate of a major feudal lord, normally held of the Crown by military tenure.
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Borough
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a town characterised by the presence of burgage tenure and some trading privileges for certain tenants.
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Bovate
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measure of arable land, normally equivalent to approx. 12-15 acres. This measurement was especially popular in eastern and northern counties of England.
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Burgage:
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A form of property within a borough
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Capital Messuage
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A messuage containing a high status dwelling house, often the manor house itself.
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Cartulary
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a book containing copies of deeds, charters, and other legal records.
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Carucate
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a unit of taxation in northern and eastern counties of England, equivalent to eight bovates or one hide (120 acres).
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Charter:
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a legal document recording the grant of land or privileges.
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Chattels
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movable personal property.
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Common land
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land over which tenants and perhaps villagers possessed certain rights, for example to graze animals, collect fuel etc.
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Common law
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a body of laws that overrode local custom.
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Copyhold
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a tenure in which land was held by copy of an entry recording admittance made in the record of the manor court.
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Cotland
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a smallholding held on customary tenure.
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Cottar
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an unfree smallholder.
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Croft
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an enclosed plot of land, often adjacent to a dwelling house.
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Custom
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a framework of local practices, rules and/or expectations pertaining to various economic or social activities.
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Customary tenure
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an unfree tenure in which land was held "at the will of the lord, according to the custom of the manor'. In practice usually a copyhold of inheritance in Cumbria by the sixteenth century.
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