Saca, meant the privilege of administering justice locally ; soca, the territory or franchise in which the privilege was to be exercised ; theime,* the seignorial jurisdiction." "It will be obvious to every one's miud that this species of local and private jurisdiction is what we now call a Manor. The substance of a manor is therefore justly said by Mr. Ellis to be aa ancient as the Saxon constitution; and the lord having soc and sac over his own men, and the baron holding his own court for his own men, were the same characters as were afterwards termed lords of Manors. The word manor was not however applied in pure Saxon times ; nor perhaps were all the laws and usages such as we now have them." '

The ancient manor as it became consolidated in the eleventh and twelfth centuries is thus defined and described by that " reverend Judge eminently knowing in the common and statute law, William Riistall " ' in his famous book on the Terms of the Law : -- " Mannor is compounded of divers things ; as of a House, Arable Land, Pasture, Meadow, Wood, Rent, Advowson, Court's Baron, and such like which make a Mannor. And this ought to be by long continuance of time, the contrary whereof man's memory cannot discern ; for at this day a Mannor cannot be made because a Court-Baron cannot be made, and a Mannor cannot be without a Court-Baron and Suitors and Freeholders, two at the least ; for if all the Freeholds except one escheat to the Lord, or if he purchase all | except one, there his Mannor is gone, for that it can- I not be a Mannor without a Court Baron (as is aforesaid) and a Court-Baron cannot be holden but before Suitors, and not before one Suitor ; and therefore where but one Freehold or Freeholder is, there cannot be a Mannor properly, although in common speech it may be so called.