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An attenuated form of the same thing may be noticed when some officer or servant was permitted to use certain plots of domanial land during the tenure of his office.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

The collections of the different acts, deeds, charters, administrative, domanial, historical, judicial, legislative, etc., fill 60,000 portfolios.

From How to Enjoy Paris in 1842 Intended to Serve as a Companion and Monitor, Containing Historical, Political, Commercial, Artistical, Theatrical And Statistical Information by Hervé, F.

Colbert, inconsistently enough, allowed a number of export duties for industrial products to remain, that he might not alienate any domanial rights.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm

This fact would show by itself that the original system, according to which property and husbandry were arranged in manorial groups, was based on a close connexion between the domanial and the tributary land.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul

We have considered the relative position of the unfree holdings, of the domanial land around which they were grouped, and of the class which had to put the whole machinery of the manor into action.

From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Vinogradoff, Paul