“Manorial rights”

The Times reports that about 90,000 “manorial rights” claims, including rights to hunt and shoot but also mine or frack in other people's property, have been lodged with the Land Registry. Thousands of home owners could see their property values plummet as a result of the "anachronistic" legal powers, which date back to feudal times. They allow “lords of the manor” to claim rights over property even if the owner possesses the freehold. Some 84,000 manorial rights notices were registered between December 2012 and July 2014, yet only 3,200 notices had been registered in the previous decade.