单词 | in roture |
释义 | > as lemmasin roture a. In pre-revolutionary France, Canada under the seigneurial system (see seigneury n. 1b), and certain other places with a polity based on the French feudal system: tenure of land subject to payment of rent as opposed to feudal obligations of homage and personal service; esp. in in roture. Chiefly historical.Opposed to fief. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > plebeian tenure roture?c1682 ?c1682 J. Warburton Treat. Hist. Guernsey (1822) 89 This division is to be understood of estates that are in roture. 1791 tr. Anc. French Arch. 30 A bundle containing original concessions or grants of lands in fief, and in roture, by different governors and seigniors. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. ii. 159 A nobleman might, and often did, hold estates in roture, as well as a roturier acquire a fief. 1866 Victoria Mag. Feb. 348 Confining ourselves to feudal countries, we will speak..of the tenure by grant, the roture, and the burgage tenure. 1886 in Communic. Cambr. Antiquarian Soc. (1887) 6 20 Tenure ‘per acras’ was the ordinary ‘roture’ tenure [in Jersey]. 1900 A. R. Hassard Canad. Constit. Hist. & Law i. iii. 40 The county members were elected by owners of lands in freehold, or in fief or roture. 1996 Univ. Toronto Law Jrnl. 46 290 Non-natives were individually granted lots under certificates of possession to be exchanged for patents in fief and roture. < as lemmas |
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