Sentence examples for the seigneur from inspiring English sources

Busbecq was the illegitimate son of the Seigneur de Busbecq and was later legitimated.

Each year, the Seigneur pays £1.79 to the Queen to renew the lease.

Sark's laws also require the permission of the seigneur for the sale of land.

She claimed the supreme court judges had not grasped how powerful the seigneur and seneschal still were.

"Tax law used to take up half a page; now it's a book," laments Michael Beaumont, the seigneur.

In 2009, after forcing the free elections, the Barclays sued to strip the Seigneur of his remaining political powers.

The Quebec Act gave the seigneurs, the church, and the clergy a degree of authority and influence they had never enjoyed even under the French regime.

The Quebec Act also enhanced the status of the seigneurs by giving them unchallenged legal authority to set the terms and conditions of settlement on their lands.

The place-name was applied in the 17th century to hunting land that was held by the seigneurs of Île de Montréal.

The seigneurs arrived with the traditional French ideas of tenant farming, a system under which the seigneury was divided into small parcels, each paying rent for the land.

From the 10th to the 13th century, the seigneurs (lords) of Beaujeu gradually enlarged their possessions into a considerable feudal lordship.