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PRONUNCIATION OF SEIGNIORIES

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SEIGNIORIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
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preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Seigniories is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES SEIGNIORIES MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Seignory

In English law, seignory or seigniory, the lordship remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple. Nulle terre sans seigneur was a feudal legal maxim; where no other lord can be discovered the Crown is lord as lord paramount. The principal incidents of a seignory were a feudal oath of homage and fealty; a "quit" or "chief" rent; a "relief" of one year's quit rent, and the right of escheat. In return for these privileges the lord was liable to forfeit his rights if he neglected to protect and defend the tenant or did anything injurious to the feudal relation. Every seignory now existing must have been created before the statute Quia Emptores, which forbade the future creation of estates in fee-simple by subinfeudation. The only seignories of any importance at present are the lordships of manors. They are regarded as incorporeal hereditaments, and are either appendant or in gross. A seignory appendant passes with the grant of the manor; a seignory in gross—that is, a seignory which has been severed from the demesne lands of the manor to which it was originally appendant—must be specially conveyed by deed of grant.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SEIGNIORIES

seigneur
seigneurial
seigneurie
seigneuries
seigneury
seignior
seigniorage
seignioralty
seigniorial
seigniorship
seigniory
seignorage
seignoral
seignorial
seignories
seignory
seik
seil
seine

WORDS THAT END LIKE SEIGNIORIES

accessories
advisories
calories
categories
countries
directories
dormitories
factories
French Southern and Antarctic Territories
histories
inventories
laboratories
memories
Northwest Territories
repositories
stories
territories
theories
Tories
trajectories
victories

Synonyms and antonyms of seigniories in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «seigniories» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SEIGNIORIES

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Translator English - Chinese

seigniories
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

señoríos
570 millions of speakers

English

seigniories
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

seigniories
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أراضي الأسياد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

seigniories
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

senhorios
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

seigniories
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

seigneuries
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Seigniori
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

seigniories
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

seigniories
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

seigniories
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Seigniories
85 millions of speakers
vi

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seigniories
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

seigniories
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

सिग्निओरीज
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

seigniories
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

signorie
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

seigniories
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

seigniories
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

seigniories
30 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Greek

seigniories
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

heerlijkheden
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

seigniories
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

seigniories
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of seigniories

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SEIGNIORIES»

The term «seigniories» is normally little used and occupies the 149.581 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SEIGNIORIES» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about seigniories

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SEIGNIORIES»

Discover the use of seigniories in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to seigniories and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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The History of the County of Huntingdon [Canada] and of the ...
Huntingdon County was one of twenty-one counties created in Lower Canada as a result of the Canada Act 1791.
Robert Sellar, 2009
2
The Consolidated Statutes for Lower Canada: Proclaimed and ...
None of the foregoing provisions of this Act shall ActnoUoe3C. exiend to the wild and unconeeded lands in Seigniories held tend to certain by the Crown in trust for the Indians, nor to any of the Se'8nione«- Fiefs in the district of Montreal, ...
Québec (Province), 1861
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Consolidated statutes for Lower Canada: Proclaimed and ...
None of the foregoing provisions of this Act shall Actnotio ex- extend to the wild and unconceded lands in Seigniories held tend to certain by the Crown in trust for the Indians, nor to any of ihe ^'R010"0"- Fiefs in the district of Montreal, ...
Canada, 1861
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Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Canada
... expenditure of the Commission, (1863, Feb. Seas.) —Attached to Report on Public Accounts, (App. No. 6.) Statement of semi-annual payment due on 1st Jan. , 1863, for the casual rights of the different Seigniories in L. Canada, (1863, Feb.
Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, 1867
5
Statutes of the Province of Canada
Act not to extend to ceilain Seigniories. Seigniory of the Seminary of Si. Sulpice, andcertain fiefs held of it. Crown and Jesuits' Seigniories. Ordnance Seigniories. Certain lands in Sherrington. Act of U. C. 3 Geo. 4, c. 14. Proviso: Governor may ...
Canada, 1854
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Appendix to ... Journals of the Legislative Assembly of the ...
I have already stated that according to the construction I feel bound to put upon the words of the titles of these Seigniories, the upper boundary of the two should be one continued right line commencing on the St. Lawrence side at four leagues  ...
Canada. Parliament. Legislative Assembly, 1845
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Lower Canada reports: decisions des tribunaux du Bas-Canada. ...
rights of the Crown in the said Seigniories, shall be ascertained and entered in the Schedule of the Seigniory, and the amount of the whole shall upon the fyling of the said Schedule become due and payable by the Seignior to the Crown, and  ...
Canada. Special Court Held Under the Authority of the Seigniorial Act of 1854, Simon Lelièvre, François Réal Angers, 1856
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decisions des tribunmaux du bas canada seigiorial questions
(Sovernor in Connoil may extend this section to Seigniories proved to be unsettled- rights of the Crown in the said Seigniories, shall be ascertained and entered in the Schedule of the Seigniory, and the amount of the whole shall upon the ...
mm. lelievre & angers, 1856
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The History of the County of Huntington and of the ...
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923.
Robert Sellar, 2011
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GEOGRAPHY AND HISTORY OF LOWER CANADA
SEIGNIORIES AND TOWNSHIPS. Lower Canada is not all divided into Townships. This country was first settled by the French and they divided the lands upon which they settled into Seigniories and Fiefs. The seignories are not all of the same ...
ZADOCK THOMPSON, A.M., 1835

NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SEIGNIORIES»

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The abyss and our last chance
From the time after the obscurantism of the middle ages when the Communes and Seigniories brought a taste for initiative and individual success back to ... «Reuters, Dec 11»

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« EDUCALINGO. Seigniories [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/seigniories>. Apr 2024 ».
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