Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In French law, a particular estate in land granted upon condition that the grantee shall share crops with the grantor.
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Examples
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There is the _champart_, a rent proportional to the crop, also payable to the lord; and there is the tithe which must be given to the clergy.
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Right of terrage or champart: the right of collecting, after the tithes, a portion of the produce of the ground.
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Davencourt, is visited by the municipal authorities of the village, who request her to renounce her right to ground-rent (champart) and thirds
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Montargis, Nemours, and Fontainebleau, a number of parishes refuse to pay the tithes and ground-rent (champart) which the Assembly has
The French Revolution - Volume 1 Hippolyte Taine 1860
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(quit-rents), carpot (share in wine), champart (share in grain), agrier
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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Origin: 1300-50; ME champartie, equiv. to champart camp1) + part share, see part) + -ie -y3
Archive 2006-09-01 Peter Zura 2006
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SR.)] [Footnote 6203: The farms of Blet and Brosses really produce nothing for the proprietor, inasmuch as the tithes and the champart (field-rents),
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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SR.) (4) The farms of Blet and Brosses really produce nothing for the proprietor, inasmuch as the tithes and the champart (field-rents),
The Ancient Regime Hippolyte Taine 1860
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