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Seigneury   Listen
noun
Seigniory  n.  (pl. seigniories)  
1.
The power or authority of a lord; dominion. "O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English."
2.
The territory over which a lord holds jurisdiction; a manor. (Written also seigneury, and seignory)





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"Seigneury" Quotes from Famous Books



... birth, had risen high in the life of the province. He had won distinction in his profession as a notary, as a speaker in the Assembly, and as a soldier in the defense of Quebec against the American invaders of 1775. In 1804 he had purchased the seigneury of La Petite Nation, far up the Ottawa. Louis Joseph Papineau followed in his father's footsteps. Born in 1786, he served loyally and bravely in the War of 1812. In the same year he entered the Assembly and made his place at a single ...
— The Canadian Dominion - A Chronicle of our Northern Neighbor • Oscar D. Skelton


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