USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The seigneurial system was an institutional form of land distribution established in New France in 1627 and officially abolished in 1854. In New France, 80 per cent of the population lived in rural areas governed by this system of land distribution and occupation.

Detailed explanation-2: -The “seigneurial system” is a scholarly contrivance rather than a found object. Absolutist France established seigneurialism in Canada through the 1627 Charter of the Company of the Hundred Associates and the legal code of the Coutûme de Paris.

Detailed explanation-3: -The seigneurial system was a way of dividing up land that would be used mostly for farming. This system was used in the part of Canada that was known as New France. The land was divided into sections called seigneuries. The French king gave each seigneury to an important person in New France.

Detailed explanation-4: -The seigneurial system was also a land distribution system aimed at populating the colony and regulating society. The territory to be developed was divided into seigneuries, which were granted to figures who had provided service to the king.