From October 10 to November 8 he authorized about sixty seigneurial concessions to officers and others desirous of forming settlements.
For over a century the seigneurial system was to Canada a source of strength and progress.
He had jurisdiction in the first instance over all cases civil and criminal in the Quebec district and in appeal from the judgments of the local or seigneurial judges.
If Talon was not the founder he was the organizer of the seigneurial institution in Canada.
Before Talon, it is true, seigneurial grants had been made in Canada, but only intermittently and without any preconceived plan or well-defined object.
The people, bowed down by civil and ecclesiastical oppression, bound in many countries to the seigneurial estates, and transferred from hand to hand along with them, threatened to rise with fury and at last to break their chains.
The country as a whole had pronounced in favour of the abolition of the seigneurial tenure and the secularization of the clergy reserves.
This was welcomed by the jurists of Montreal and Quebec, as it simplified the law, reducing order out of chaos; the abolition of the seigneurial tenure act of 1854 had rendered the codification very necessary.
The Seigneurial Tenure Act while abolishing the system of feudal rights and duties so long prevailing in Lower Canada, authorized the governor to provide commissioners to appropriate indemnifications for the despoiled seigneurs.
Money order offices were first opened on December 1st; reciprocity was established between Canada and the United States; the seigneurial tenure was abolished and the secularization of clergy reserves was brought about.
This leads us to ask the question: Did the seigneurial body meet in open or secret conclave when their interests were to be safeguarded?
Macdonald, and that abolishing the seigneurialtenure originally introduced by Mr. L.
The adventurer who first built a donjon on the Rocher de Chantilly little knew with what seigneurial splendour the site was ultimately to be graced.
At night Bertha asked her cousin--according to the old custom, to which the ladies of our day object--to keep her company in her big seigneurial bed.
What is the use of being a lady if the seigneurial dues are received elsewhere.
I am holding myseigneurial court to-day," he said.
Louis Racine sat in the greatSeigneurial chair, returned from the gates of death.
Brilliant, enthusiastic, fanatically French, the new Seigneur had set himself to revive certain old traditions, customs, and privileges of the Seigneurial position.
He was made chief justice for Lower Canada and presided with distinction over the sessions of the Seigneurial Court.
In the opinion of such authorities as Sulte and Munro the seigneurial system answered its purpose very well.
The other question, which affected French {140} Canada, was the seigneurial tenure of the land.
No steps were taken till the nineteenth century to relieve the habitants of the burdens of seigneurial tenure.
He was to continue, during his life, governor and captain of the island and of the seigneurial manor house under, however, the pleasure of the Gentlemen of the Seminary.
Its dignity, however, is such that one is not allowed to forget that it is the Seigneurial Manor; it communicates with the parochial church, which has more the air of a cathedral than that at Quebec.
To remedy this the seigneurs gave their tenants four months to put their lands in order and to cut down all standing timber on pain of forfeiture to the seigneurial domain.
At Montreal, the assumption of the seigneurial duties and privileges was not without difficulty.
But he still wished to retain his seigneurial domain of 400 arpents.
The first market place was opened in 1676 opposite the seigneurial manor house, which was established on St. Paul Street, and its site was the land now occupied today by the Inland Revenue and that running down to the river.
The remaining articles were such as would safeguard the people and would provide for the ordinary rights of seigneurial tenure, of real property, of commerce, of negro and Indian slaves and the exercise of justice.
The administration of justice shall be rendered uniform, and the high seigneurial jurisdictions shall be suppressed.
The seigneurial system was a survival of the French régime.
Dorion voted for the third reading of the Seigneurial Tenure Bill and against that relating to the Clergy Reserves.
The basis of the coalition was an agreement to carry out the principal measures foreshadowed in the speech from the throne--including the abolition of the Seigneurial Tenure[10] and the secularization of the Clergy Reserves.
It recognized most of the French civil law, including the seigneurial tenure of land.
In April 1768 Carleton had proposed the restoration of the seigneurial militia system.
Lands outside the seigneuries were to be in free and common socage, whileseigneurial tenure itself could be converted into freehold on petition.
No more tithes to the cures, no more seigneurial dues, no more taxes to a government which put half the money in its own pocket and sent the other half to the king, who spent it buying palaces and crowns.
The militia were mostly of the seigneurial class with a following of habitants and townsmen of both French and British blood.
Carleton pointed out that a hundred men of the Canadian seigneurial families were being kept on full pay in France, ready to return and raise the Canadians at the first opportunity.
The duke made fast friends with several of the seigneurial families, more especially with the de Salaberrys, whose manor-house at Beauport stood half-way between Montmorency and Quebec and not far from Montcalm's headquarters in 1759.
Then for five centuries the inn became a manoir--the seigneurial residence of a certain Sieur de Sémilly.
At twilight, also, when the garden was submerged in dew, this oldseigneurial chamber was a retreat fit for a sybarite or a modern aesthete.
In such districts, each little despot exercised dominion over a few miserable villagers, and had a seigneurial right to a portion of the village district; but the poorest had no real property, and sometimes only rented their dwellings.
But the general rule was that those not noble, could only occupy a property as a mortgage, not with seigneurial rights as a possession.
It swept away the rubbish of feudalism; it delivered persons from the remains of servitude, properties from seigneurial liabilities; from the ravages of game, and the exaction of tithes.
By destroying the seigneurial courts, that remnant of private power, it led to the principle of public power; in putting an end to the purchasing posts in the magistracy, it threw open the prospect of unbought justice.
The same strategic position which first gave a foothold to the seigneurial chateau was newly fortified in 1536, in order to resist the troops of François I.
Fortunately for the æsthetic proprieties, it has lost nothing of its seigneurial aspect of old as have so many of its contemporaries when put to a similar use.
As its name indicates, it is a descendant of the town which grew up around an ancient seigneurial residence here of the fourteenth century.
At the entrance of the old bourg is a great gateway which originally led to the seigneurial enclosure.
The second class of community came as a natural ally of some great abbey, seigneurial chateau, really a fortress or an episcopal foundation which demanded freedom from molestation as its undeniable right.
The seigneurial chateau at Vezelay is hardly in keeping to-day with its former proud estate.
In the good old days it was the seat of a marquisat and was of course endowed with a seigneurial chateau.
The Chateau de Salles was called "royal" in distinction to the usual seigneurial chateau which was merely "noble.
The seigneurial residence itself has been transformed, basely enough, one thinks, into a casino and theatre, with an art nouveau façade.
It gives one the impression of being an exact replica of a seigneurial domain of its time.
The feudal memories of Bresse are chiefly the ruins of the seigneurial chateau at Chateauneuf, the chief-town of the Val-Romey.
This was notably true of all seigneurial residences which occupied isolated positions in the feudal epoch.
They lived in poor, mean cabins, far from the towns and under the protection of a seigneurial chateau or abbey.
At Montauban, in the Garonne, one of these old seigneurial flour mills may still be seen.
The grant of seigneurial rights did not imply that the recipient had been a noble in France.
And a better illustration is found in the operation of the seigneurial system upon which Canadian society was based.
Sidenote: Oppressive Seigneurial Officers] Such are the burdens of the St. Aliquis peasants.
But we have much to examine ere we penetrate the seigneurial hall.
These last form the chapter of canons who enjoy as a corporate body a quantity of lands, seigneurial rights, officers, and goodly income quite separate from the bishops.
On some fiefs, as on the royal domain at this time, there would be a higher seigneurial officer, the bailli, set over the provosts.
This canopy is the sign of high seigneurial privilege.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigneurial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
