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How to use seigniory in a sentence

Looking for sentences and phrases with the word seigniory? Here are some examples.

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In the early 1700s, sieur Hazeur cedes the seigniory to his progeniture, Michel Sarrazin, member of the colony's Upper Council.
As well as the seigniory of Brion, he held the titles of comte de Charny and comte de Buzançois.
East of that part of Mingan seigniory controlled by the Company and in the southern part of Upper Canada were some independent traders.
In the late 1830s, it is told that fishermen from St-Thomas-de-Montmagny inhabit the seigniory of Grande-Vallée des Monts, but in summer only.
Established as a seigniory in 1657, Longueuil is well known as a fine place to live.
On April 16, 1647, Pierre Le Gardeur de Repentigny was granted the seigniory of Repentigny.
The administrative district of Roeselare once belonged to the seigniory of Wijnendale, one of the most prominent seigniories in Flanders.
I think it is safe to say that Charles LeMoyne would be satisfied indeed if he could see what has become of his seigniory.
O'Neal never had any seigniory over that country but what by encroachment he got upon the English.
Discovered by the French navigator Jacques Cartier in 1535 and named after Maurice Poulin, who was granted a seigniory north of its mouth in 1668, the river first served as a fur-trading route.
The seigniory of Grande-Vallée des Monts was ceded by Louis de Buade de Frontenac, at the time governor of Nouvelle-France, on the 23rd of March 1691 to sieur François Hazeur, bourgeois merchant in the village of Québec.
At the earliest, when taking possession of the seigniory LeParc and Villeray, the pioneers, from the forest, cut their plot of land on the first concession.
First seigniory of the region and a service and industrial hub.
Wishing to push the population of the seigniory forward into the forest, the Jesuits undertook to establish a burg or a village on the hillside overlooking the valley of the Saint Charles River.
In 1776 Joseph Tixier-Dubreuil, a bourgeois from Felletin, a market town near Banizette, bought the seigniory thus saving the Estate from the Revolution.
The city later became an independent seigniory.
Examples from Classical Literature
I offered my services as a butcher to the superintendent of the seigniory of Nointel.
Well, Conrad of Nointel, you are leaving the court to return to your seigniory?
This seigniory was granted in 1636, and is now the property of the Seminary of Quebec.
The King took the city and placed a new bishop in the seigniory.
The girl's property was within a seigniory held by the Church.
Although they were hard advocate of Abbasid caliphs, they are completely independent and their seigniory was in the form of domination.
I am vested with low and high judicial powers in my seigniory.
Have I not, as a matter of right, six months' credit in my own seigniory?
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