signiory

“In every signiory, barony, and manor, all the leet-men shall be under the jurisdiction of the respective lords of the said signiory, barony, or manor without appeal from him.”

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1

“There shall be a registry in every signiory, barony, and colony, wherein shall be recorded all the births, marriages and deaths, that shall happen within the respective signiories, baronies, and colonies.”

An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1

“In every signiory, barony and manor, all the leet men shall be under the jurisdiction of the respective Lords of the said signiory, barony or manor, without appeal from him.”

Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languages University of Illinois

“His family owned the signiory of Commines on the Lys, and some of his ancestors had been aldermen of Ypres.”

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery

“They who are convinced of His will, which is the law of laws, and the sovereign of sovereigns, cannot think it reprehensible that this, our corporate realty and homage, that this our recognition of a signiory paramount -- I had almost said this oblation of the state itself -- as a worthy offering on the high altar of universal praise, should be performed with modest splendour and unassuming state.”

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“France, Savoy, Switzerland; now it is a fundamental law in that signiory, to give free access to all offenders, yet so as to punish their offence according to the custom of that place wherein the fault was committed.”

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