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Manorial Law
LEGALITY OF DORMANT MANORIAL AND
FEUDAL TITLES
Many Lordships (Lord of the Manor) titles of dignity that appear dormant
became lordships of gross. (a manor in gross is one which in the course of time
has ceased to have any demesne lands annexed to it. (see Scriven's Law of
Copyholds and Manors (7th Edition 1896).
There is a lack of information by many platforms and companies selling manorial titles. Many are clearly not competent in manorial law.
A well-known passage in Magarry and Wade on The Law of Real Property, 6th
edition (2000) page 30, to the effect that after 1289 the number of mesne
lordships could not be increased, evidence of existing lordships gradually
disappeared with the passing of time, and so most land came to be held directly
by the Crown. (also detailed in Cheshire and Bum's Modem Law of Real
Property, 16th edition (2000) page 15)
Therefor, many manors were extinguished either when invested in the Crown, or
when its assets were sold off, thereafter becoming a lordship in gross, plus,
often there is no documentary evidence to show that the requirements for
conveyance (by deed) of many lordships had been met.
A
solicitor needs to specialise in property law and the registration of a title,
including manorial law.
To identify this standard as the 'yardstick', Jackson and Powell on Professional
Liability 6th edition (2007) at 11-097 is the go-to paper.
On the absence of any manorial documents - this is a strong indication that no
manor existed or had been transmitted. We therefore rely upon the provision of
section 144A of the Law of Property Act 1922, as inserted by section 2,
Schedule 2 and paragraph 2 of the Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924. In
particular section 144A (2) provided that "manorial documents shall remain in
the possession or under the control of the lord of the time being of the manor to
which the same relates and he shall not be intitled to destroy or damage wilfully
such document".
The absence of such records is an indication that a manor has ceased to exist. A
solicitor exercising proper care should be alert to this point.
A manorial or feudal title (Lordship/Barony) cannot be created or
reconstructed by anyone other than the Crown. This is a legal point of which many platforms and companies selling manorial titles mislead viewers over their novelty titles and
sell them as genuine - which is fraudulent behaviour. It simply is not true that any barrister found a way to claim/reconstruct/create
titles as one particular company would lead their viewers to believe. We have contacted every barrister in the UK and found none who would put their name to such a deed.
Possession of a manorial or feudal title in name is neither a lordship or barony.
It is not a title as such. It is the 'Quiet Enjoyment' of the name only.
Therefor, without the correct documentation quoting the relevant laws and
sections of law, the titles sold by many platforms/companies are of novelty value only.
Full titles are titles which have a checkable and complete set of deeds, in an unbroken chain, and are the only titles which should be registered on the Official Gazette. Therefor those titles registered by one particular companies solicitors have been fraudulently submitted and have grossly misled the staff at the Gazette. The company in question does not sell titles which hold a complete set of deeds, and its complicit solicitors are effectively undermining the value of those titles which do hold a complete set of deeds.
The leading authority on manorial law and titles is The Manorial Society of Great Britain whose auction arm, Manorial Services, sell full manorial titles by private treaty.
We can help purchasers of manorial and feudal titles with research and investigation on the validity of a title being sold by any platform/company together with its 'worth'. We have our own research department as well as a partnership with two professional researchers based in the UK.
We are partnered with a firm of solicitors in London for UK based legal work.
Bear in mind the current prices of full titles which hold complete sets of deeds of previous holders from when the title was issued and up to its current holder today:
Full Manorial Title (Lord of the Manor) average £8,000-£9,000
Full English Feudal Barony Title (which are quite rare) sell for £100,000 +
Full Scottish Feudal Barony Title sell for £95,000 +
Full English Feudal Earldom Title (which are extremely rare.) - one sold about 3 years ago for £2 million.
So, if you see any titles being sold below these prices, then they are not full titles but titles of the 'Quiet Enjoyment' of the title name only.
Please contact us if you wish for further advise: info@manoriallegalservice.com
or complete the online form on the 'Contact' page
Our fees are very competitive.