The manorial system of New France, known as the seigneurial system, was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire. Economic historians have attributed the
Boundaries of fiefs, including sub-fiefs, in Lower Canada (as charted in 1923)
St. Lawrence River by SPOT Satellite. "Long lots" can be discerned at the riverside.
Ribbon farms along the Detroit River in 1796, where modern Detroit and Windsor, Ontario now stand. Fort Detroit is on the north side of the river at center left, and Belle Isle is to the right.
The Custom of Paris was one of France's regional custumals of civil law. It was the law of the land in Paris and the surrounding region in the 16th–18th centuries and was applied to French overseas co
The Custom of Paris as practised in New France during the French government