The seigniors received liberal remuneration for the abolition of the lods et ventes, droit de banalité, and other rights declared legal by the court.
Moreover the seigneur's right to lods et ventes stood in the way of a ready transfer of property between members of the same family.
No longer does his position give him the authority of a magistrate; no longer must the habitants grind their corn at his mill; no longer can he claim lods et ventes when land is sold.
So did the lods et ventes, the tax of one-twelfth of the price of whatever land the habitant sold.
Lods et ventes were payments made to the lord when the farm changed hands.
The holder in these cases had the right to sell or rent his holding subject to the payment of lods et ventes.
Also thelods et ventes,{97} which are now estimated at 42 pounds.
Lands had risen in value so that the lodset ventes now amounted to a considerable payment when lands changed owners.
Only in the days after the conquest, when land rose in value and transfers became more frequent, could the lods et ventes be counted among real sources of seigneurial income.
This was the payment known as the lods et ventes, a mutation fine which the seigneur had the right to demand whenever a farm changed hands by sale or by descent, except to direct heirs.
He kept hus council an' bided hus time, waitun' for the lods tull be back from sea.
Rights of lods et ventes on copyholders, due by the purchaser of property liable to this lien, in forty days.
A good many alienate the whole, excepting their small manor and their seigniorial dues, the cens and the lods et ventes, and their hunting and justiciary rights on the territory of which they were formerly proprietors.
In Bourbonnais, the lods et ventes are collected at a third, a quarter, at the sixth, eighth and twelfth rate.
A discount of one-quarter of the lods et ventes is allowed to purchasers.
When any farm or small holding was sold or it passed by inheritance to collaterals, the seigneurs were entitled to "lods et ventes," a tax of one-twelfth of the estimated value of the land.
It was only in later years when the lands became of substantial value that the "lods et rentes" gave a real source of income to them.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "lods" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
