Sentence example with the word 'seigneurial'

seigneurial

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Several seigneurial grants in the region of Quebec had, in fact, been made before Richelieu first turned his attention to the colony.   [Please select]

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Despite its increasing obsolescence, the seigneurial system was still strong in France and dominated the greater part of the kingdom.   [Please select]

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And some of the seigneurial estates were eight or ten miles square.   [Please select]

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The seigneurial system of land tenure, as all students of history know, was feudalism in a somewhat modernized form.   [Please select]

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And that is just what the colony did, with the seigneurial system as the groundwork of defensive strength.   [Please select]

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Another seigneurial obligation was that of giving to the seigneur certain days of _corvĂ©e_, or forced labor, in each year.   [Please select]

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Besides, there were various details of a minor sort incidental to the seigneurial system.   [Please select]

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In a few populous districts there were seigneurial courts with regular judges who held sessions once or twice each week.   [Please select]

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Their procedure, like that of the seigneurial courts, was simple, free from chicane, and inexpensive.   [Please select]

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CHAPTER VIII SEIGNEURS OF OLD CANADA From the beginning of the colony there ran in the minds of French officialdom the idea that the social order should rest upon a seigneurial basis.   [Please select]

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In a word, before 1600 the feudal system had become the seigneurial system, and it was the latter which was established in the French colony of Canada.   [Please select]

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