Seignior
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
or SEIGNEUR. Among the feudists, this name signified lord of the fee.
Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 23.
The most extended signification of this word includes not only a lord or per of parliament, but is applied to the owner or proprietor of a thing; hence the owner of a hawk, and the master of a fishing vessel, is called a "seigneur."
37 Edw. III. c. 19; Barr. Obs. St. 258.