Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In French-Canadian law, an annual payment by a tenant to the seignior or lord, in recognition of his superiority.
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Examples
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Through another effect of the same qualification he imposes quit-claims on property on which he has formerly given perpetual leases, and, under the terms cens, censives
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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The cens was a money payment and merely nominal in amount.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916
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First among these were the annual payments commonly known as the cens et rentes.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism William Bennett Munro 1916
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.”
Bird Cloud Annie Proulx 2011
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I called Remington and gave them my 2 cens worth (what good, other than to me).
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June 4, 2010 at 3:01 am he census you… makes cens, no?
Census kitteh knows you’re in there. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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* Comme s'il disoit, Il tira hors de sa maison trois cens dixhuit serviteurs: [1229] 1
Commentary on Genesis - Volume 1 1509-1564 1996
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