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seigneurial

He had seigniorial good looks of a kind now rarely met with.

The site is also of interest as the location of a seigniorial court.

Almost every movement against princely or seigniorial power attacked Jews.

Even in those areas where seigniorial authority was most developed, however, the community never embraced all the village's inhabitants.

We have noted how royal jurisdiction invaded the seigniorial courts.

The seigniorial administrative officers, often recruited from the village, formed a group apart.

Where seigniorial rights were subdivided among families habitually living in town, special arrangements had to be worked out.

Many clustered for protection below a seigniorial castle.

A seigniorial privilege once taken for granted may now qualify as an abuse that proves politically lethal.

He was also responsible for establishing regulations relative to the police, commerce, market prices, currency, militia, and seigniorial rights.

A seigniorial property, the flour mill is on the right bank of the Hallue river.

Founded in 1501, the city is a collection of seigniorial houses, ancient palaces, churches and convents.

The English system was known in France, but principally in seigniorial courts.

---- To these reasons may be added a political one, namely the growth of seigniorial power.

More difficult to assimilate into the community than humble folk were the officers of seigniorial administration, especially those who were martial.

Besides, it was profitable for them to disrupt any seigniorial jurisdiction that stood in the way of subordinating the countryside to the town.

In these circumstances, a relatively strong central government was better than seigniorial decentralization for keeping servile folk in their place.

Knightly and even seigniorial families sometimes fell to the level of a rather leisured yeomanry with tastes too elevated for their means.

Now he seems to be sloughing off his pop side in favor of a forbidding astringency combined with seigniorial ranting.

In England, where seigniorial authority was not so developed, it referred only to those peasants who were members of a lord's manorial familia.

Local princes, secular or ecclesiastical, also encouraged and even forced this unification in order to destroy enclaves of independent seigniorial authority.

The planter's daughter (Laura's mother) marries a member of the professional class: a banker who is able to finance his seigniorial father-in-law's coffee crop.

It is a reminder of the seigniorial arrogance of a landed aristocracy that acted godlike when spurred and mounted.

In exchange, personal ovens were generally outlawed and commoners were thus compelled to use the seigniorial oven to bake their bread.

Seigniorial ovens were masonry ovens built on the Roman plan and were large enough to hold an entire community's ration of bread.

He was a significant figure in the seigneurial system of the time.

He was involved in a struggle over land and seigneurial rights for the settlers of the area.

Then, before I could respond, he resumed the seigneurial stance.

The mansion was a seigneurial domain within the city with a courtyard and a summer house.

It was not only seigneurial duty that motivated him.

There is not much sign of peasant migrants escaping seigneurial control altogether.

Surprisingly, this practice was quite prevalent during the Seigneurial era (1627-1854), not only in large urban areas.

The seigneurial system of farming was adopted in Quebec.

Someone referred to him as the Baron, and one could well believe it, for he had a seigneurial panache.

A few small streets are attached to the road, but the rest of the municipality is divided using the seigneurial system.

When he died in 1927, his widowed daughter succeeded him and quickly restored the seigneurial rights.

Two other lines read: "The son picked to succeed him never lived up to the / seigneurial old man."

However, the seigneurial system of land tenure continued to be applied uniformly throughout the province.

The seigneurial method of land tenancy was thus maintained.

Naturally, he was gabbing on a cell phone the whole time, with a seigneurial indifference to anything in his path.

A matter of his seigneurial dignity, for there was nothing there to find.'

The settlers lost any hopes of seigneurial rights in a legal decision but did retain their homesteads.

Seigneurial farmers took this subsistence approach because of the smaller market that existed in Quebec.

He worked to abolish the system of seigneurial tenure in Quebec and reform agricultural legislation.

New fortifications were undertaken around the middle of the 14th century (seigneurial hall).

He lives there in a grand seigneurial style he can afford after three decades of following his own investment strategy.

Quebec retained its seigneurial system after the conquest.

It is a relic of the seigneurial system of New France.

When the seigneurial system was abolished in 1854 what had not been sold was entailed.

In France, the rebellious peasants abolished seigneurial claims and controls.