seigniory

On the continent the common use of the scocheon is to bear the paternal arms of a sovereign or noble, surmounting the quarterings of his kingdoms, principalities, fiefs or seigniories.

In English law the term “honour” is used of a seigniory of several manors held under one baron or lord paramount.

He was the last lord seignior to live within the seigniory, which passed from him to his son-in-law John de Mowbray.

A royal seigniory, lost on the confines of Gaul, it has not yet suffered from the disasters of war that for more than a half century have been desolating the center of the country.

A few seigniories were established by that company; but, as we have seen, the country under its management was practically at a stand-still.