Cens

Word CENS
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Through another effect of the same qualification he imposes quit-claims on property on which he has formerly given perpetual leases, and, under the terms cens, censives ❋ Hippolyte Taine (1860)

First among these were the annual payments commonly known as the cens et rentes. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

The cens was a money payment and merely nominal in amount. ❋ William Bennett Munro (1916)

For this he paid an annual homage to the seigneur of “1 sol in ‘cens,’ 3 live capons and 9 silver livres in ‘rentes,’ and 9 days of work on the seigneurie.” ❋ Annie Proulx (2011)

I called Remington and gave them my 2 cens worth (what good, other than to me). ❋ Unknown (2008)

June 4, 2010 at 3:01 am he census you… makes cens, no? ❋ Unknown (2010)

* Comme s'il disoit, Il tira hors de sa maison trois cens dixhuit serviteurs: [1229] 1 ❋ 1509-1564 (1996)

André Félibien, Relation de la feste de Versailles de 18 juillet mil six cens soixant-huit, p. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

Relation de la feste de Versailles de 18 juillet mil six cens soixant-huit. ❋ Wheaton Barbara Ketcham (1983)

_ (Deux milliards deux cens millions_) near ninety-two millions sterling, the interest or produce of which, at 3-1/4 per cent. per annum, amounts to the three millions beforementioned. ❋ Richard Twiss (N/A)

Here an officer of the national guard who had been present during the whole of the battle of the 10th, said to me, "La journeé a _eté un peu forte, nous avons eu plus de quinze cens des notres de tués_," (the day was rather warm; we have had more than fifteen hundred of our own people killed.) ❋ Richard Twiss (N/A)

The habitants then became tenants paying as rent the old _cens et rentes_. ❋ George M. Wrong (N/A)

Thus the _cens et rentes_ began to bring in a real income. ❋ George M. Wrong (N/A)

The habitant paid usually in _cens et rentes_ twenty sols (about twenty cents) for each arpent (192 feet) of frontage; instead of cash usually he might pay in kind -- a live capon or a small measure (demi-minot) of grain for each arpent. ❋ George M. Wrong (N/A)

The seignior received his land gratuitously from the crown, and granted them to his vassals, who were generally known as _habitants_, or cultivators of the soil, on condition of their making small annual payments in money or produce known as _cens et rente_. ❋ J. G. Bourinot (N/A)

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