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| | Baronies |
 | | Historically, baronies were conveyed as significant estates of land, with, usually, a caput or principal house where the baron courts could be held, although other examples are a named field (Cowbin, 1466) a tree (Cragis, 1505) or a standing stone (Killunquhane, 1506), which disprove any contention that a barony needs a house as its caput. |
 | | Feudal baronies are baronies by tenure, i.e., by possession of the pertinent land. |
 | | There was in medieval England a class of barony by tenure, but this is academic as it was ruled in the Fitzwalter case in 1670 that baronies by tenure had been discontinued for many years and were not to be revived, nor any right of succession based on them. |
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