In English law, seignory or seigniory, spelled signiory in Early Modern English (; French: seigneur [sɛɲœʁ] , lit. 'lord'; Latin: senior, lit. 'elder'), refers to the rights which a grantor retains after the grant of an estate in fee simple. Nulle terre sans seigneur ("No land without a lord") was a feudal legal maxim; where no other lord can be discovered, the Crown is lord as lord paramount.
In English law, seignory or seigniory, spelled signiory in Early Modern English (; French: seigneur [sɛɲœʁ] , lit. 'lord'; Latin: senior, lit. 'elder'), refers to the rights which a grantor retains after the grant of an estate in fee simple. Nulle terre sans seigneur ("No land without a lord") was a feudal legal maxim; where no other lord can be discovered, the Crown is lord as lord paramount.
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