seigneurial rights
Lord's legal powers
Seigneurial rights were the privileges and powers held by a feudal lord over his estate and its inhabitants.
These included collecting rents, demanding labor services, operating mills and ovens that tenants were obliged to use for a fee, and administering local justice.
The term appears in historical contexts, particularly regarding French Canada, where the seigneurial system persisted until 1854: The habitants owed various seigneurial rights to the lord of the manor.
- lord of the manorFeudal estate holder
- feudal systemMedieval land-loyalty arrangement
- banalitiesOverused, unoriginal remarks
- tenant farmerOne who leases farmland
- usufructRight to another's property
homage · fealty · demesne · tithe · tolls · sworn oath · landed gentry · vassalage · serfdom · lord · tribute · fief · bondage · dues · estate · peasant · manor · nobility
- feudalismfief, vassal, fealty, homage, lord
- Crown Dependencies Lawfief, Viscount
- feudal lawfeudal system, fiefs, vassalage, fealty
- feudal punishmenthanging, flogging, whipping, pillory, dungeon
- French LawNapoleonic Code, magistrates, judiciary, civil courts, criminal courts
- serfdomserfs, villeins, villeinage, thralls, bondage
seigneurial rightspopular sovereignty
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land redistribution · agrarian reform · egalitarianism · commons · collective ownership