manorial extent

/manoriyal akstent/ In old English law, a survey of a manor made by a jury of tenants, often of unfree men sworn to sit for the particulars of each tenancy, and containing the smallest details as to the nature of the service due. These manorial extents were made in the interest of the lords, who were anxious that all due services should be done; but they imply that other and greater services were not due, that the customary tenants, even though they be unfree men, owed these services for their tenements, no less and no more. Statements that the tenants were not bound to do services of a particular kind were not very uncommon. The "extents" of manors are descriptions which give the numbers and names of the tenants, the size of their holdings, the legal kind of their tenure and the kind and amount of their service