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Definition of Demesnes
1. demesne [n] - See also: demesne
Lexicographical Neighbors of Demesnes
Literary usage of Demesnes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by Henry Stalman, John Scriven (1846)
"So if the king grant the demesnes of a manor for life, ... When the demesnes are
once separated from the manor, so that the custom is destroyed, ..."
2. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"1st, It shews, that the distinct leases of the rectory and of the demesnes granted
twenty or thirty years before still remained so. ..."
3. A Treatise on Copyholds, Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and the by John Scriven (1823)
"And if on a partition of a manor between two sisters, A. and B., the demesnes
are allotted to A. and the services to B., the manor is dissolved; ..."
4. A Treatise on Rents by Geoffrey Gilbert (1838)
"ements thereunto belonging, reserving for the said scite, and demesnes and
premisses therewith letten, 5/. ; and for the said manor and premisses therewith ..."
5. A Practical Treatise on the Law of Advowsons by John Mirehouse (1824)
"... manor, the church itself having been built by the lord for the use of the
tenants and inhabitants of demesnes of , J ed with the the manor; ..."
6. A Treatise on the Game Laws, and on Fisheries: With an Appendix, Containing by Joseph Chitty (1812)
"Kitten made protestation (hat he had M'arren as well in other lands as in his
own demesnes, and said that he hunted in his warren in his own demesne, ..."
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