Please help. Advice needed regarding search results!!!

Arina

kiddakidda wrote: »

Who's lording it around your Manor?!

And does he have the Minerals

Lord knows! (Excuse the punt) lol

It's been one thing after another this house purchase malarkey! As soon as you think your close to the finishing line.. Something else pops up!

kiddakidda

Arina wrote: »

Lord knows! (Excuse the punt) lol

It's been one thing after another this house purchase malarkey! As soon as you think your close to the finishing line.. Something else pops up!

I know what you mean, I've come to realise that it is a never ending series of hurdles. Jump one and there will be another one ahead.

Arina

kiddakidda wrote: »

I know what you mean, I've come to realise that it is a never ending series of hurdles. Jump one and there will be another one ahead.

I thought getting the mortgage offer was the hardest!

I really hope halifax say its ok x

moneyistooshorttomention

Cissi wrote: »

At a wild guess, "manorial mineral rights" probably mean that the erstwhile lord/lady of the manor still retains rights over any precious minerals found on the land in question - I would imagine this is only relevant if a goldmine or similar is discovered in the back garden, but I may be wrong?

That would be my assumption. A very unlikely scenario I would have thought, so very very low chance of trouble. If anyone ever did find anything under your back garden, then you just wouldn't let on to said "lord of the manor" about it anyway.

Only thing I can think of here that vaguely might raise its head is fracking. If some blinkin' firm finds there is potential for that under your land AND said firm gives sweetener bribes to shut up and not protest about it to relevant home-owners. In that case, the "lord of the manor" might be after a share of the pay-off bribe.

In the - very unlikely - event of something valuable-to-you being found in your garden the Lord of the Manor would presumably have to have right of access for him/his workmen to get at it in the first place (ie before he could take any of your profit from having found it on your land).

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Overall, in the grand scheme of things, I'd just go ahead and buy the house anyway if I wanted it and it was as mortgageable as normal. I would just make sure I never "found anything" in my garden if it was actually there to be found in the first place (at least I wouldn't admit to it if I did and flog it off quietly myself).

Arina

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

That would be my assumption. A very unlikely scenario I would have thought, so very very low chance of trouble. If anyone ever did find anything under your back garden, then you just wouldn't let on to said "lord of the manor" about it anyway.

Only thing I can think of here that vaguely might raise its head is fracking. If some blinkin' firm finds there is potential for that under your land AND said firm gives sweetener bribes to shut up and not protest about it to relevant home-owners. In that case, the "lord of the manor" might be after a share of the pay-off bribe.

In the - very unlikely - event of something valuable-to-you being found in your garden the Lord of the Manor would presumably have to have right of access for him/his workmen to get at it in the first place (ie before he could take any of your profit from having found it on your land).

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Overall, in the grand scheme of things, I'd just go ahead and buy the house anyway if I wanted it and it was as mortgageable as normal. I would just make sure I never "found anything" in my garden if it was actually there to be found in the first place (at least I wouldn't admit to it if I did and flog it off quietly myself).

Thank you very much for your reply. I will definitely keep this thread updated with the outcome x

AdrianC

Arina wrote: »

What is fracking? Thanks

<blink> Seriously?

lincroft1710

Most of the land on which housing estates were built belonged to the local lord. When it was sold on, the lord retained the mineral rights, so any gold, coal, iron ore found under the land belongs to him.

Arina

AdrianC wrote: »

<blink> Seriously?

What do you mean by this comment?

Arina

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Most of the land on which housing estates were built belonged to the local lord. When it was sold on, the lord retained the mineral rights, so any gold, coal, iron ore found under the land belongs to him.

Thank you for your reply x

AlexMac

AdrianC wrote: »

<blink> Seriously?

It means A's being a smart-pants by
- inferring that everyone should know what fracking is (it's the controversial process of extracting shale oil by subterranean drilling and hydraulic injection) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_fracturing
and that he's
- patronising you for not knowing this

Less seriously, at least you don't have to worry about the other historic (and probably mythical) Manorial Right of 'Droit de Seigneur'- over the virginity of female serfs... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Droit_du_seigneur

keep asking the Qs, and best wishes
lol