Seignior
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
In its general signification, means lord, but in law it is particularly applied to the lord of a fee or of a manor; and the fee, dominions, or manor of a seignior is thence termed a saigniory, i.e. a lordship. He who is a lord, but of no manor, and therefore unable to keep a court, is termed a seignior in gross.
Kitchin, 206; Cowel. Seigniorage.
A privilege or prerogative of the king, by which he claims an allowance in respect of gold and silver brought in the mass to be exchanged for coin.
Cowel.