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Definition of Signiories
1. signiory [n] - See also: signiory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Signiories
Literary usage of Signiories
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Statutes at Large of South Carolina by South Carolina, Thomas Cooper, David James McCord (1836)
"No one person shall have more than one dignity, with the signiories or baronies
thereunto belonging. But when soever it shall happen, that any one who is ..."
2. The Old South Leaflets: Annual Series by Edwin D Mead (1903)
"No one person shall have more than one dignity, with the signiories or baronies
thereunto belonging. But whensoever it shall happen that any one, ..."
3. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"... shall consist of eight signiories, eight baronies, and four precincts; each
precinct shall consist of six colonies. V. At any time before the year one ..."
4. The Works of John Locke by John Locke (1823)
"The lords of signiories and baronies shall have power only of granting estates
not exceeding three lives, or thirty-one years, in two-thirds of the said ..."