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- noun Plural form of
landgrave .
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Examples
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For Carolina, Shaftesbury and Locke devised a constitution which provided a territorial nobility, called landgraves and caciques, but it soon became a mere historical curiosity.
Lord Elgin Bourinot, John G 1903
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Carolina was to have an elaborately stratified society, with a nobility of landgraves and “caciques,” hereditary, indivisible domains, baronies, manors, and seignories.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Carolina was to have an elaborately stratified society, with a nobility of landgraves and “caciques,” hereditary, indivisible domains, baronies, manors, and seignories.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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Carolina was to have an elaborately stratified society, with a nobility of landgraves and “caciques,” hereditary, indivisible domains, baronies, manors, and seignories.
A History of American Law Lawrence M. Friedman 1985
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There shall be a parliament, consisting of the proprietors or their deputies, the landgraves and cassiques, and one freeholder out of every precinct, to be chosen by the freeholders of the said precinct respectively.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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The landgraves; the eldest in age first, and so in order.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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There shall be just as many landgraves as there are counties, and twice as many cassiques, and no more.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Paragraph LXXVI, and except also in nominating and chusing landgraves and cassiques, as in Paragraph X.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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The first landgraves and cassiques of the twelve first counties to be planted, shall be nominated thus; that is to say, of the twelve landgraves the Lords Proprietors shall each of them separately for himself nominate and chuse one; and the remaining four landgraves of the first twelve, shall be nominated and chosen by the Palatine's court.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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Lands for the cassiques and landgraves were ordered to be marked out in square plats, and freedom was granted them to chuse their situation.
An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia, Volume 1 Alexander Hewatt
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