DCHP-2
lods et ventes † lots and ventes. French, Hist. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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in New France, one of several seigneurial rights transplanted with the Coutume de Paris, namely, the right to a twelfth part of the purchase price of every estate changing hands by sale or transfer, abolished with the institution of seigneurial tenure in 1854.
See also: losivants
- 1764 The Lots and Ventes, or Alienation Fines, on the Purchases made by the Inhabitants, one from the other . . . may amount yearly to about £2000.
- 1831 It is just and necessary to grant, in certain cases, an abatement and a delay to those who owe Lods and Ventes in His Majesty's Domain in the said suburbs.
- 1963 The lord's economic rights . . . consisted in the main of the rights to the lods et ventes, a charge on transfers; the right of banalité, the exaction of a charge for services, such as milling; the customary rent of cens et rentes, a fixed payment for tenure.
- 1764 The Lots and Ventes, or Alienation Fines, on the Purchases made by the Inhabitants, one from the other . . . may amount yearly to about £2000.