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And just like that seigneur's finest abstract works, I don't have a clue what Lou Dobbs is actually railing about.
Robert J. Elisberg: I'm Not a Patriot, But I Still Play One on TV 2009
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Less than is usually supposed did the habitant like it since it placed him again under the priest's and the seigneur's authority, suspended since the British conquest.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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Canada in time exported flour, but the seigneur's rights stood in the way of the free grinding of the wheat for this trade.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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Whatever the limitations on the seigneur's authority he had the undoubted right of control over fishing in rivers and lakes until the adjacent lands were conceded to occupiers.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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In Canada there is no law of primogeniture and, at a seigneur's death, the land went to daughters as well as to sons.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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If we may credit the words of Bishop Hubert of Quebec written just at this time (in 1794) the new liberties gained by the habitants did not make the seigneur's task easier.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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In Canada no wine was made, so the seigneur's winepress did not exist.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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Moreover the seigneur's right to _lods et ventes_ stood in the way of a ready transfer of property between members of the same family.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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The other chief source of profit, as settlement increased, was from the seigneur's mill.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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The ministrations of the manor house were often patriarchical and beneficent; the seigneur's wife was like the squire's wife in an English village.
A Canadian Manor and Its Seigneurs The Story of a Hundred Years, 1761-1861 George M. Wrong
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