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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 Man·or n.
 1. Eng. Law The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.
    My manors, rents, revenues, l forego.   --Shak.
 Note:In these days, a manor rather signifies the jurisdiction and royalty incorporeal, than the land or site, for a man may have a manor in gross, as the law terms it, that is, the right and interest of a court-baron, with the perquisites thereto belonging.
 2. American Law A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.
 Manor house, or Manor seat, the house belonging to a manor; the house of the lord of the manor; a manse.