or Signior, is, in its general signification, the same with lord, but is particularly used for the lord of the fee or of a manor, as seigneur among the feudists is he who grants a fee or benefit out of the land to another. Having granted away the use and profit of the land, the seignior still retains within himself the property or dominion.

SEIGNIORAGE is a royalty or prerogative of the king, by which he claims an allowance of gold and silver brought in the mass to be exchanged for coin. See Coinage.

SEIGNIORY is borrowed from the French seigneurie, which means dominatus, imperium, principatus, and signifies with us a manor or lordship, seigniory de seckmans. Seigniory in gross seems to be the title of him who is not lord by means of any manor, but immediately in his own person; as tenure in capite, by which one holds of the king, as of his crown, is seigniory in gross.