It was by these services that the monks got their own seigniorial farm cultivated.
Nothing shows so well the perfect unfitness of all seigniorial land-systems to the best development of a country as the entire failure which met all efforts to fix it in American colonies.
The seigniorial systems of Europe have never prospered in America, and the early experiments in founding colonies by the mere exportation of men to this soil were failures even when the men were of English blood.
It is worth while to notice that this Dutch colony never had the energetic life of the English settlements, which may be in part attributed to the effort to fix the Continental seigniorial relations upon the land.
As the lots of a seigniorial grant were limited in area--four arpents in front by forty in depth--the farms in the course of time assumed the appearance of a continuous settlement on the river.
This was the beginning of that seigniorial tenure which lasted for two centuries and a quarter.
A few members of the seigniorial nobility, the officials and some merchants--perhaps three hundred in all--may have gone back to France.
The great land question of Canada, the seigniorial tenure of Lower Canada, was disposed of by buying off the claims of the seigniors, and the people of Lower Canada were freed from exactions which had become not so much onerous as vexatious.
In 1798, seigniorialrights had pretty nearly been extinguished.
Reasons why the Seigniorial Tenure failed: (a) It was not adapted to conditions in Canada.
This system of holding land came to be known as Seigniorial Tenure.
Note the effect of the conquest of Canada and of the American Revolution, upon Seigniorial Tenure.
In the year 1854 Seigniorial Tenure was abolished, the Government recompensing the seigniors for the surrender of their ancient rights and privileges, and freehold tenure, as in Ontario, was introduced.
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.
To another authority on the seigniorial system in Canada, Professor W.
Few of the oldseigniorial families remained on their original estates.
Since under the seigniorial tenure, the farmers must use the seigneur's grist mill, Nairne had his mill in operation and Fraser was building one in 1798.
In 1854, after an election fought largely on this issue, the Parliament of Canada swept away the seigniorial system.
But when towns and villages had grown up on seigniorial estates, a good deal of buying and selling took place and there stood always the seigneur demanding in every transaction his share of the selling price.
But in time the burden of grievances was generally felt and then the seigniorial system was doomed.
With the abolition of the seigniorial system ends too the story of the Nairne family.
These judges, who were competent to decide questions as to the payment of seigniorial dues could not, legally at all events, themselves farm those revenues.
Probably the first royal bailiffs or seneschals were the seigniorial bailiffs of certain great fiefs that had been reunited to the crown, their functions still continuing after the annexation.
When the right of appeal was instituted, it was they who heard the appeals from sentences pronounced by inferior royal judges and by the seigniorial justices.
I understood but little the meaning of the seignioriallife there.
Come in and hear about Miss Farrell's seigniorial romancing.
It is very perplexing--these seigniorial rights and rents and transferences.
Some had gone from curiosity, taking advantage of their first opportunity to go over a seigniorial dwelling; but all within was in disorder, faded, covered with dust.
The church owed much to the seigniorial system, but it made ample repayment.
The antique dungeon, like all fortified seigniorial castles of the middle ages, had a secret and subterranean issue which opened at a considerable distance from the manor itself.
The royal taxes, the seigniorial imposts, the tithes of the church are ever on the increase--and still I hear rumors of fresh taxes.
Seeing the courtier's fortune consisted almost exclusively in his seigniorial domains, there was no way of increasing his revenues except by overwhelming his vassals with exorbitant imposts.
By this time it was perfectly clear that the real struggle was political, between the elements ofseigniorial independence and strong monarchy.
In seigniorial towns, especially in those acknowledging an ecclesiastical lord, great progress was made toward an approximation of the rights enjoyed by the royal towns and cities.
Many of theseigniorial groups were incorporated into the crown, especially by Philip II.
While the seigniorialideal was not lacking in the towns, they were not nearly so dangerous to the monarchy, because they were usually as hostile to the nobility as the kings were.
Again, when the lords made laws for their territories they did so by special grant of the king, who frequently intervened to change the seigniorial statutes or to enact others of his own.
There was a seigniorial class of the usual variety, with dependents in a more or less servile relation.
The formerseigniorial stronghold of Aragon proper was in this war the most powerful royalist element.
The worst of these seigniorial rights, the Aragonese lord's power of life and death over his villeins, was abolished by Philip V.
For example, while some seigniorial castles were centres of luxury and entertainment, others retained the austere, military customs of the past.
The real weakness of the seigniorial class is well illustrated by the case of Galicia.
The principal military force was that of the municipal militia, although the seigniorial levies still formed part of the army.
In the 11th century the kings of that line possessed meagre domains scattered about in the Ile de France among the seigniorial possessions of Brie, Beauce, Beauvaisis and Valois.
Ronan, my brother, listen in the direction of the seigniorial mansion--it seems to me I hear an odd noise proceeding from that direction.
Seigneur count, hasten to greet him and lead him into your seigniorial residence!
The principal building, however, was hidden from their view by the gables of the barns and stables that adjoined the seigniorial mansion from that side.
The seigniorial residence that shelters the count and his leudes is built after the Germanic fashion: in lieu of walls stout beams carefully planed and fastened together, rest upon a broad stone foundation.
In the main, or seigniorial building are also the women's apartments reserved for Godegisele, the fifth wife of the count, whose second and third wives still live.
By the terms of his patent, he held seigniorial rights over this wild domain; and he now began to grant it out in parcels to his followers.
The expenses of war weighed less heavily upon the serf than upon the freeman; and, as for legal protection, the seigniorial court, where the serf was judged by his peers, was far preferable to the cantonal assembly.
By this means each municipal magistracy had the disposal of a force far superior to those of the nobles, for the population of the towns exceeded both in number and discipline the vassals of the seigniorial lands.
In the seigniorial system a village hardly furnished more than four or five men, and these only on important occasions; but in that of the towns every citizen was enrolled as a soldier to defend the country at all times.
I hear that you have taught the peasants to complain of the seigniorial rights, and to expect to have the corvee and all other dues remitted.
The seigniorial race will not see the morrow of that day.
The interior magnificence of this seigniorial edifice matches its defensive strength.
That seigniorial race must be strangled out of existence," put in Adam the Devil, biting his nails with suppressed rage.
Now, let us hear the sacred mass; you will tell me whether Gloriande de Chivry, my betrothed, whom you will see in my seigniorial pew, is not a superb beauty.
Was not a decree of the court of the seneschal of Beauvoisis requisite in order to authorize our friend Conrad to exercise his seigniorial right over a miserable female serf in revolt?
About two leagues from the village of Cramoisy, and in the thickest of the seigniorial forest of Nointel, is a vast subterranean grotto, cut into the chalky rock that offers little resistance to the pick and the mattock.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seigniorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
