In English law, Seignory or seigniory (French seigneur, lord; Latin senior, elder), the lordship (authority) remaining to a grantor after the grant of an estate in fee simple.
双语例句
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It is certain that this monastery which had a grand air both as a church and as a seignory.
可以肯定的是，这座修道院既有教堂的气派，也有修道院的气派。
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It is certain that this monastery which had a grand air both as a church and as a seignory; that abbatial palace where the bishops of paris counted themselves happy if they could pass the night;