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Example sentences for "allodial"

Lexicographically close words:
allocated; allocating; allocation; allocations; allocution; allois; alloit; allon; allone; allons
  1. Hence an extraordinary variety of distinctions came to be recognised, all intended to diminish the inconveniences inseparable from allodial property.

  2. Precisely the same phenomena recur during that more recent transmutation of European society which entirely substituted the feudal form of property for the domainial (or Roman) and the allodial (or German).

  3. But the other sorts of property, of more modern origin and lower dignity than the allodial possessions, are much more easily alienated than they, and follow much more lenient rules of devolution.

  4. The primitive German or allodial property is strictly reserved to the kindred.

  5. The person who ministered to the Sovereign in his Court had given up something of that absolute personal freedom which was the proudest privilege of the allodial proprietor.

  6. Gaius himself observes upon the splitting of dominion into two parts as a singularity of Roman law, and expressly contrasts it with the entire or allodial ownership to which other nations were accustomed.

  7. If this be true of Great Britain and Ireland, where no allodial tenure exists, how much more true must it be of New York?

  8. If this division was founded upon the equal allodial rights of the brothers, it was obviously unfair.

  9. It was the same appropriation by the king of all allodial rights, which was encountered for the first time during the reign of Harold the Fairhaired.

  10. The cultivators of the soil, from having been free proprietors, became the tenants of the king, and in so far as they were permitted to retain their inherited estates, derived this privilege no more from allodial but from feudal right.

  11. The third class of property was the land which the yeomanry had formerly held by allodial right, and which they now held with as much security and right of inheritance, as the king's nominal tenants.

  12. For, although the monarchy in Norway had not from the earliest times been strictly hereditary, the idea had gradually gained acceptance that the land belonged by allodial right to the male descendants of its first conqueror.

  13. As conquest of territory was made, the land was parcelled out among the followers, who received it from the leader as allodial grants and, later, as feudal grants.

  14. The allodial grant resembled the title in fee simple, the feudal grant was made on condition of future service.

  15. Innocent invested him by a ring with the allodial or freehold lands of the Countess in return for an annual tribute and on the understanding that at Lothair's death they should revert to the Papacy.

  16. The said king, whenever he wishes, may take vengeance on the count of Flanders, by attacking the lands of the said count which he holds in the empire, whether they are fiefs or allodial lands.

  17. If anyone sells his allodial lands, he shall not sell the authority and jurisdiction of the emperor over them; sales made with these provisions are void.

  18. We have heard that some sell the benefices which they hold from us to other men in full ownership, and then, having received the price in the public court, they buy back the lands as allodial lands.

  19. It is on these considerations, therefore, that we now grant you by our apostolic authority the allodial lands which the countess Matilda formerly gave to St. Peter.

  20. But if the nobles have anything against the ministerials, which concerns their persons or their allodial holdings, they shall enter suit in the archbishop's court and obtain justice there.

  21. A udaller is one who holds his lands by allodial tenure.

  22. Udaller, one who holds land by allodial tenure.

  23. A udaller is one who holds his lands on allodial tenure.

  24. It was derived mainly from feudal properties, fiefs of vassalage and fiefs of official position, secularized church property and other forfeited property, division of mark forests, and from allodial possessions of the family.

  25. During this precarious state of the supreme power, a difference would immediately be experienced between those portions of territory which were subjected to the feudal tenures, and those which were possessed by an allodial or free title.

  26. Here was no allodial property, no censitive hereditary domain, as in the rest of, otherwise, feudal Europe.

  27. In feudal times seignorial estates could be purchased by none but those of noble blood; but with allodial estates it was different all through Europe.

  28. He accordingly took possession of Comachio and some other places, pretending they were allodial estates belonging to the duke of Modena, and fiefs of the emperor, to which the holy see had no lawful claim.

  29. In case the child should be still-born, or die after the birth, he bequeathed his dominions and allodial estates to the infant Don Carlos of Spain; and appointed five regents to govern the duchy.

  30. Robertson thus draws the line between them and the vassals: "In the same manner Liber homo is commonly opposed to Vassus or Vassalus, the former denoting an allodial proprietor, the latter one who held of a superior.

  31. This might have been done by converting the holdings of the men-at-arms into allodial estates, held direct from the Crown.

  32. Allodial lands, or those held in the right of the individual, and for which there was no obligation of service, except in the general defence, were at length swallowed up by the feudal system.

  33. His lands may have passed into the hands of the Gothic conquerors; but the Gothic or Burgundian or Frankish possessor of innumerable acres, once tilled by peaceful citizens, remained an allodial proprietor.

  34. They are not truly allodial holders, for they hold tribal land; but they have no manorial lord over them.

  35. The holdings in yard-lands implied serfdom,» «because inconsistent with the equal division of allodial property among heirs.

  36. The yard-land not the allodial allotment of a free tribesman.

  37. Tuscany, to receive and educate in his family his niece, and eventually to make her his consort, on condition of her being declared heiress of all the Duke's allodial and personal property.

  38. In whatever period this law was framed in bad Latin, we find, in the article relating to allodial or freehold lands, "that no part of Salic land can be inherited by women.

  39. In the first place, it appears from the formulae of Marculphus that a father might leave his allodial land to his daughter, renouncing "a certain Salic law which is impious and abominable.

  40. It is certain, therefore, that the Salic law could have no reference to the crown, neither in connection with allodial lands, nor feudal holding and service.

  41. Again, the smaller proprietors who held their estates by allodial tenure voluntarily surrendered them into the hands of some neighboring lord, and then received them again from him as fiefs, that they might claim protection as vassals.

  42. For these reasons, my sweet daughter, I constitute you by this letter a legitimate and equal co-heir with your brothers in all my estate, in such sort that you shall share with them not only the acquired property but the allodial land.

  43. The heriot was the payment of a debt from the dead man to his lord; his son succeeded him by allodial right.

  44. It was not the change from allodial to feudal so much as from confusion to order.

  45. There was some resemblance to it in parts of the Saxon organization; but under that organization there was so much of freedom in the allodial or free tenure of land that a great deal of other freedom went with it.

  46. My nephew has definitely refused to agree to the arrangement proposed by his mother, and my sister has sold me the whole of the allodial part of Sagan, or the part which she claimed to be subject to this condition.

  47. They have to settle between them the legal questions which have arisen between my sons and my sister Hohenzollern, concerning the allodial claims of the latter to the greater part of Sagan.


  48. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "allodial" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.