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Seigneur (English: Lord German: Herr) was the name formerly given in France to someone who had been granted a fief by the crown with all its associated rights over person and property. This form of lordship was called seigneurie the rights that the seigneur was entitled to were called seigneuriage and the seigneur himself was the seigneur justicier because he exercised greater or lesser jurisdiction over his fief.