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Residing constantly on their patrimonial feuds, and familiarized, by daily habit, with Seigneurial powers and practices, they had not yet learned to suspect their inconsistence with reason and right.
From Memoir, Correspondence, And Miscellanies, From The Papers Of Thomas Jefferson, Volume 1 by Randolph, Thomas Jefferson
He was made chief justice for Lower Canada and presided with distinction over the sessions of the Seigneurial Court.
From The Winning of Popular Government A Chronicle of the Union of 1841 by MacMechan, Archibald
Seigneurial rights were being abolished, or rather surrendered, at the very time that this transaction was under consideration.
From East of Paris Sketches in the Gâtinais, Bourbonnais, and Champagne by Betham-Edwards, Matilda
Seigneurial Tenure, abolition of, 37 and note, 45.
From The Day of Sir John Macdonald A Chronicle of the First Prime Minister of the Dominion by Pope, Joseph, Sir
I fancy, from what Monsieur Dué said, that in Sweden people are used to see their friends always in Seigneurial vineyards—they never see them anywhere else!
From In the Courts of Memory, 1858 1875; from Contemporary Letters by Hegermann-Lindencrone, L. de (Lillie de)
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