But the French charge d'affaires recognised no debatable ground such as even in the international comity of the West differentiates one dependent State from another, and one suzerain Power from another.
China in that year ceased to be the suzerain of Korea, and obligations which were valid under the old regime necessarily lapsed.
But Japan was in no humour to relinquish her own policy in Korea, which was quite incompatible with thesuzerain status of China, and with the very concrete form in which it had just been manifested.
If he neglects or refuses he is to be excommunicated by the bishop, and his suzerainshall inflict on him the penalty of heresy.
He might, if treated with injustice, go to the superior: he might appeal to the suzerain of his immediate lord.
The bishop was often made the count, and, as such, was the suzerain of all the nobles in his diocese.
The power of the suzerain depended on a variety of circumstances.
In the conflicts which were waged by the cities, they were sometimes helped by the suzerain against the king, and sometimes by the king against the nearer suzerain.
When a female inherited, the fief was occupied by the suzerain up to the time of her marriage.
The suzerain might at any time require its renewal.
Two months after, Richard was mortally wounded while besieging a castle near Limoges, where it was said that a treasure had been found, which he as the suzerain claimed.
As suzerain Philip summoned John to answer at Paris, and when he did not appear the court declared his fiefs forfeited.
He descended into Italy, married the injured queen, and obliged Berengar to own him as suzerain (951).
He then summoned the "Duke of Aquitaine" to appear before his suzerain after the feast of Christmas.
William was detained upon the Continent some time after this affair by a quarrel which, in 1087, broke out between himself and his suzerain the King of France, concerning the possession of the border district called the Vexin.
To brave the ire of thy suzerain lord Will lead to direful dule.
Ride on, Sir Payne, and tell the churl He must cease his hunting cheer, And come to the knee of his suzerain lord Awaiting his presence here.
He bids you, as your suzerain lord, Forthwith to come to his knee, And as his liegeman humbly stand, And answer him truthfully.
Occupied as advocates and lawyers with such details of the law as were of any practical importance, they must have been involved in family feuds and the oft-recurring disputes between Corsica and the suzerain Power, Genoa.
In Cochin China the emperor gained some gratifying if not very important successes, and asserted his right as suzerain over several disobedient princes.
The custom of Marquette originated from the theory of property in woman; the Suzerain or lord possessing not only a certain property right in his male vassals, but a double right to the woman who as a bride became the property of his vassal.
Megasthenes mentions that India was divided into one hundred and eighteen kingdoms; some of which, such as that of the Prasii under Chandragupta, exercised suzerain powers.
That government, as suzerain in India, does not allow its feudatories to form alliances with each other or with foreign states.
He retained the upper hand, but the indignant suzerain Tiberius ordered the governor of Syria to proceed against him.
Edward I of England at once assumed all the rights of a feudal suzerain until the disputed claims should be settled.
The 53rd section of the Legacy proves this to have been regarded as the supreme crime: "The guilt of a vassal murdering his suzerain is in principle the same as that of an arch-traitor to the Emperor.
Something of the same old Chinese teaching we find reechoed, a thousand years later, in the Legacy of Iyeyasu: "The art of governing a country consists in the manifestation of due deference on the part of a suzerain to his vassals.
This the Rajah realised, and it filled him with feelings of hostility and disloyalty to the Suzerain Power.
And the tale of them rarely reaches the ear of the representatives of the Suzerain Power or the columns of the daily press.
Still, it would have saved them a man or two, and our friend theSuzerain noticed it.
He looked back a moment towards the clustering huts which rose faintly black against the dim bush, and wondered how the Headman would explain matters to his Suzerain on the morrow.
The Suzerain sat impassively still, and looked at them in a curious fashion when they stopped not far from him.
Then the Suzerain of the village signed to the negroes who held Ormsgill, and they led him forward.
Their Suzerainseems to have some notion of fair play.
Only our friend the Suzerain has sense enough to realize that if they sit still much longer the yoke will be tolerably securely fastened on all of them.
As you suggest, he stands between his Suzerain and the Portuguese, and can't afford to offend either of them.
The effort, however, was futile, and he stood still again with his arms pinioned fast behind his back and the perspiration dripping from him while the Suzerain looked at him from his stool with a little grim smile.
Then Ormsgill went back quietly to where the Headman and his Suzerain were sitting.
The Headman or his Suzerain had drilled his followers into some kind of order, and Ormsgill found something impressive in the silent flitting by of half-seen men.
The Headman did not come to San Roque to make his humble complaint, but he sent an urgent message to the Suzerain of the village Ormsgill was confined in, and at last one morning the old man sent for the latter.
The night was almost chilly, and the Suzerain crouched close beside the blaze, huddled in his loose garments, with the uncertain light on his impassive face.
Most of the men there sat on the ground, but there were two seated figures, the village Headman, and the Suzerain lord of his country, the old man they had met already, on a slightly higher stool.
The South African Republic had asked for arbitration on certain questions, and England, with Mr. Chamberlain as spokesman, had refused, because a suzerain Power could not be expected to settle disputes with its vassal by means of arbitration.
Instead of a sovereign freedom, we obtained free internal administration, subject to the suzerainpower of Her Majesty over the Republic.
Babylon, far from exhibiting any restlessness at her present position, showed her gratitude for the favours which her suzerain had showered upon her by resigning herself to become the ally of Assyria.
But after the battle of Falkirk the national representatives of Scotland appealed to Boniface as suzerain of the kingdom.
Each of them received its Constitution as bestowed, not by the Act of its own Legislature, but by the Act of a suzerain Legislature.
For Ireland will receive her Constitution by the Act of her own Constituent Assembly, not by the Act of any suzerain Legislature.
The sons of vassals were sent to the castle of the suzerain to be brought up with his sons.
With a barrier of insurmountable race feeling before them, the Uitlanders are hopeless of effecting a peaceful redress of their grievances except by the aid of the Suzerain power.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "suzerain" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
