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Seigniorial (Tenure) Bill Hist. 
the legislation passed by the government of United Canada in 1854 to abolish seigneurial tenure.
- 1855 The Maine Liquor Law--which is likely to have as long a lease of Parliamentary attention as the celebrated Seignorial Tenure Bill--again occupied the House to-day to the exclusion of almost everything else.
- 1855 (1926) . . . Lemieux commands more votes among the Franco-Canadians than any other person in Upper Canada, and his appointment stops a mischievous re-agitation of the Seignorial Bill question.
- 1963 [The new ministry [1854] at once carried the secularization of the Clergy Reserves and the abolition of seigniorial tenure, with compensation. . . .]
- 1855 The Maine Liquor Law--which is likely to have as long a lease of Parliamentary attention as the celebrated Seignorial Tenure Bill--again occupied the House to-day to the exclusion of almost everything else.