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moulin banal

French, Hist.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Old Quebec, the mill of the seigneur, where tenants were obliged to take their grain for milling.

See: mouture

Quotations

1815
They are also bound to grind their corn at the moulin banal, or the lord's mill, where one-fourteenth part of it is taken as his use for mouture, or payment for grinding.
1886
The intendant issued an ordinance forbidding the Dame de la Forêt from turning her mill in the county of St. Laurent while there was a moulin banal in that place.