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losivants

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n. pl.

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.

Quotations

1770
It is required of the Tennants of said Seigneurie to come and satisfy the present Proprietor of whatever may be due of Rents, or Arrears of Rents, Losivants &c. at or before the 11th of November next.