The mastery or dominion of a lord; including ploughs, land, men, villages, etc, reserved for the lord's use; often concentrated in a home farm or demesne, a "Manor Farm" or "Lordship Farm" dominium
dominium In one sense, the land owned by a tenant-in-chief (lord or institution). Also sometimes refers to the land owned by a tenant-in-chief and farmed directly by them, rather than by peasants. In Domesday entries a recurring phrase is 'is and always was in lordship'. Abbreviation occurring in the margin in Domesday, meaning manor.
An area or territory ruled by a lord, (see Manor). An example is the Lordship of Kidland, based around the Kidland area of Northumberland. This was Umframville and then Cistercian Newminister lands.
The state or condition of being a lord; hence (with his or your), a title applied to a lord (except an archbishop or duke, who is called Grace) or a judge (in Great Britain), etc.