seigniory

1 The father’s political influence as a member of the Supreme Council enabled him to obtain for each of his sons an extensive seigniory.

2 About this time large tracts of land were granted as “seigniories” by Count Frontenac and his successors.

3 Has not Montfort, who is now the master and conqueror of the region, bestowed several of the seigniories upon chiefs of our Crusade?

4 Far away down both banks of the St. Lawrence the dogs of war had raged through seigniories and hamlets.

5 "She reigned as sovereign in the seigniory," he says, "by the very tender ties of love and of gratitude."

6 From St. Paul's Bay to Quebec, there is nothing but the seigniory of Beauport that belongs to a private person.

7 He was the last lord seignior to live within the seigniory, which passed from him to his son-in-law John de Mowbray.

8 The greater part of Canada was divided into large estates or seigniories, with the view of creating a colonial noblesse, and of stimulating settlement in a wilderness.

9 Spotless weather and a dimpled bay adorned this lost seigniory.

10 I am vested with low and high judicial powers in my seigniory.

11 Know then, sir, and gentlemen of this company, that that seigniory being sold again, and again regranted by the British Crown, has long ago become the property of my father in perfect title.

12 "I don't understand these seigniories, and I tried to read up about them before I came here."

13 Under Seigniorial Tenure, the seller of land in a seigniory was compelled to pay the seignior an amount equal to one twelfth of the purchase money.

14 A royal seigniory, lost on the confines of Gaul, it has not yet suffered from the disasters of war that for more than a half century have been desolating the center of the country.

15 Never yet did immorality, to which the royal court, the Church and the seigniory set so shocking a pace, cause such widespread ravages.

16 Five years separated the needy Munster Captain from the Lord Warden of the Stannaries, the magnificent Captain of the Queen's Guard, the owner of broad lands in England, and Irish seigniories.

17 The province was to be divided into counties, and each county into seigniories, baronies, and precincts.

18 For forty years I lived a serf on the domain of Compiegne, and it mattered little to me whether I exercised my trade of masonry in one seigniory or another.

19 It is divided up, as it were, into forty-seven seigniories, in each of which a Standing Committee is the court-baron and its chairman lord-proprietor.

20 A few seigniories were established by that company; but, as we have seen, the country under its management was practically at a stand-still.

1 省

provincial province vilayet

2 君权

throne royalty majesty sovereignty sceptre crown prerogative seigniorage

3 领地

manorial domain territory possession manor lordship fief fiefdom demesne principate provincial feod feoff border dominion vassalage von

4 领主权

seigniorage seigneury

5 区

section district ward township canton arrondissement