manor

A landed estate.

The main house on an estate; a mansion.

A tract of land in certain North American colonies with hereditary rights granted to the proprietor by royal charter.

The district over which a lord had domain and could exercise certain rights and privileges in medieval western Europe.

The lord’s residence in such a district.

1. A dwelling; habitation.

In England, generally, a landed estate, especially one the tenure of which vests the proprietor with some particular rights of lordship; specifically, in old law, a lordship or barony held by a lord and subject to the jurisdiction of a court-baron held by him; in more ancient usage, an estate of a lord or thane with a village community, generally in serfdom, upon it. See villeinage and yard-land.

The jurisdiction of a court-baron or court of the lord of a manor.