A
manor in
English law is an
estate in land to which is incident the right to hold a
court termed
court baron, that is to say a
manorial court. The proper unit of tenure under the
feudal system is the
fee, on which the manor became established through the process of time, akin to the modern establishment of a "business" upon a freehold site. The manor is nevertheless often described as the basic feudal unit of tenure and is historically connected with the territorial divisions of the
march,
county,
hundred,
parish and
township.