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aforesaid appartient arpents arrêt autres ayant Beauharnois Bécancour Bégon bien bois Canadian Carignan Catalogne cens et rentes censitaires colony common soccage commutation Company concédées concessions Conseil conseil d'état Correspondance Générale corvée costé Coutume Coutume de Paris Crown cultivation Custom of Paris Despatch desservie deux dite dits domain donner droit edict Édits et Ordonnances espèces estates esté faire fait familles feudal fief France free and common French habitans habitants Hocquart Hommage Iroquois Jacques Raudot justice King Lanaudière légumes lieues lods lods et ventes Lower Canada Majesty mélangés ment mesme Messieurs Minister Monseigneur Montreal nécessaire nombre Nouvelle-France obligation officers paroisse pays persons présent printed produisent province qu'il qu'on Quebec quint Raudot redevance réunion Rivière roture royal seigniorial system Seigniorial Tenure sera seront settlers Sieur socage sortes de grains Talon terres title-deeds Titres des Seigneuries tout trois Trois Rivières Vaudreuil
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Page 191 - A CES CAUSES, et autres à ce nous mouvant, de l'avis de notre Conseil et de notre certaine science...
Page 68 - Louis, par la grâce de Dieu, roi de France et de Navarre, à tous présents et à venir, salut.
Page 293 - Assembly; be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, that it shall and may be lawful for His Majesty, his heirs and successors, by...
Page 44 - Académie royale d'architecture pleinement, paisiblement et perpétuellement, suivant lesdits statuts, cessant et faisant cesser tous troubles et empêchements contraires; car tel est notre plaisir. Et afin que ce soit chose ferme et stable à toujours, Nous avons fait mettre notre scel à cesdites présentes.
Page 348 - An Act to provide for the extinction of feudal and seigniorial rights and burthens, on lands held à titre de fief and à titre de cens, in the Province of Lower Canada, and for the gradual conversion of those tenures into the tenure of free and common soccage, and for other purposes relating to the said Province.
Page 224 - And therefore the common law of England, as such, has no allowance or authority there; they being no part of the mother country, but distinct, though dependent dominions. They are subject, however, to the control of the parliament, though (like Ireland, Man, and the rest) not bound by any acts of parliament, unless particularly named.
Page 237 - Be it remembered, that on the day of in the year of his majesty's reign, and in the year of our Lord...
Page 224 - But in conquered or ceded countries, that have already laws of their own, the king may indeed alter and change those laws; but, till he does actually change them, the ancient laws of the country remain, unless such as are against the law of God, as in the case of an infidel country.
Page 178 - Fait au conseil d'état du roi, sa majesté y étant, tenu à Versailles, le treize novembre mil sept cent soixantedix-huit.
Page 224 - Our American plantations are principally of this latter sort, being obtained in the last century either by right of conquest and driving out the natives (with what natural justice I shall not at present inquire) or by treaties. And therefore the common law of England, as such, has no allowance or authority there; they being no part of the mother-country, but distinct (though dependent) dominions.