Example Sentences

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He cut ahead of this goofy old couple behind us, as if it were his seigniorial right.

From Golf Digest • Apr. 2, 2020

Now those imperious seigniorial rights over the region may be slackening.

From Washington Post • Mar. 12, 2017

It is very perplexing—these seigniorial rights and rents and transferences.

From A Cry in the Wilderness by Waller, Mary E. (Mary Ella)

When the right of appeal was instituted, it was they who heard the appeals from sentences pronounced by inferior royal judges and by the seigniorial justices.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various

Probably the first royal bailiffs or seneschals were the seigniorial bailiffs of certain great fiefs that had been reunited to the crown, their functions still continuing after the annexation.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various