Under English rule, the granting of lands, without, however, the seignorial rights, was continued.
In addition to the rule regarding the ownership of unseated lands there developed, also under Roman law doctrine, the conception of seignorial right, i.
But this did not prevent bishop and abbot in countless instances in France, England, Germany, and Spain, from riding mail-clad under their seignorial banner at the head of their forces.
All crimes rejoice him as he rages along his ruthless way to establish his seignorial rights over a fief unjustly awarded him by Louis, the weak son of Charlemagne.
In front of a great seignorial mansion, in one of the principal streets, fresh straw was laid; in the house lay that same invalid whom we saw hastening abroad.
How is it possible, sir, for a seignorial peasant to make a noise about his money?
On all sides, in the memoirs, we obtain a foreshortened view of some one of these seignorial existences.
In vain might the soft seignorial hand be disposed to be easy or paternal; the hard hand of the proxy bears down on the peasants with all its weight, and the caution of a chief gives place to the exactions of a clerk.
The statement that the Macedonian commonwealth was "relieved of seignorial imposts and taxes" by the Romans (Polyb.
Polybius' words, to assume that the hitherto seignorial tax now became a public one.
He would not confess that lands, and houses, and seignorial functions were no longer of value in his eyes.
The nobles still retained their Seignorial Courts; but these, jealously watched by the Baillis and Seneschals, were confined to questions between the Seigneur and his dependants.
Blanche then gracefully perched herself in the great seignorial chair of her good man, which she did not find any too high, since she counted upon the chances of perspective.
Certain old rats asked each other what might mean this seignorial footstep, with which they were unacquainted, and some of them decamped, and they did well, for the lord and master entered suddenly.
Punin at the word 'oppressors' pointed to the seignorial abode, and then poked the driver in the back.
Though you are the seignorial grandson, you have no right to come into other people's rooms.
Nikolai Antonov running out of the seignorial abode, shouted at the top of his voice to the coachman: 'Get away with you!
It was a seignorial garden in the first French style which preceded Le Notre; to-day it is ruins and briars.
Their assumption that the Revolution was made, while all France was still torn by fierce and unappeasable disputes as to seignorial rights, was one of the most striking pieces of self-deception in history.
Du Cange was his seignorial style, his personal name being Charles Dufresne.
His family name was Vandenclyte, and his ancestors (Flemings, as their name implies) had been citizens of Ghent before they acquired seignorial position and rank.
The seignorial holdings varied in size from half a league to six leagues on the river and extended back from half a league to two leagues.
When Hillsborough restored seignorial tenure, many of them acquired seigniories, though they continued to live by trade.
The majority of these seignorial grants were made to officers of the regiment of Carrigan, which had been stationed in Canada.
It contained the boudoir and sleeping apartments of some of the fair seignieuresses [296] of Beauport in the house which Robert Giffard, the first seignor built there more than two centuries ago; it is the oldest seignorial manor in Canada.
The last time, all the burghers were ennobled, and he gave them permission to buy seignorial estates and take titles from the land without special letters from the king.
He also took two hundred thousand francs from his own fortune, and Lallier gave as much more, for the purchase of a fine seignorial manor in Picardy, the price of which was five hundred thousand francs.
The richness of seignorial garments, the luxury of female adornment, must have harmonized delightfully with the lace-work of these stones so wonderfully manipulated.
In the seignorial villages, the selection is made by the steward.
The condition of the slaves on seignorial lands is both morally and physically less satisfactory than that of the crown serfs.
He pointed out other abuses; in the absence of a firm hand the nature of seignorial privilege rendered these inevitable.
The lady, his owner, had brought him up from the village where he lived alone in a little hut, apart from his brothers, and was reckoned about the most punctual of her peasants in the payment of the seignorial dues.
It is true that seignorial justices were not abolished; but an appeal was permitted from their decisions to the judgment of the crown.
Royalty could not watch over seignorial jurisdictions, and the ordinances of the kings were powerless out of the domains of the crown.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "seignorial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
