Taxable quota (right seigneurial)

See also: Taxable quota

The taxable quota and the censive are two terms related to the economic structure of feudal political systems :

  • the taxable quota indicates a Redevance (“To pay the taxable quota”);
  • the censive can be either the funds (“To have/buy censive”), or the royalty (“To pay the censive one”), synonymous with taxable quota applicable to the ground, or the way of having the funds (funds held into censive and not in Fief or franc-freehold).

Taxable quota and censive: the royalty

The taxable quota is the yearly rental, land and perpetual which due by that which has the useful property of a Fonds, called censive, with that which has the eminent Propriété of it, is called seigniory. The censitaire is in general commoner, but it can also be noble or ecclesiastic. The censive one can consist of a ground, a piece built in a city, a mill or a vat on a river, a toll on a way, heads of cattle with a right of pasture, but also an important field like a Prieuré. That which receives the taxable quota is always regarded as noble.

By giving the taxable quota, the censitaire symbolically admits being subjugated with that of which it holds its funds; by receiving the taxable quota, the direct lord confirms his obligation to ensure the censitaire a possession right and peaceful. Convention enters the censitaire and the lord is the object with each change, of a " reconnaissance" or of a " investiture" or " investizion" when it is a censive commoner, but also sometimes a Hommage when it is a noble field.

One distinguishes between the censive servile ones, which cannot be sold or bequeathed, and the censives free ones which can be sold. The first are supposed to have for origin a freehold property which was recommended to the protection of a lord, the seconds are supposed to have been a ground conceded by a lord with a man without fortune.

The censives ones can be rented, either by the lord and they are converted into revenue, or by the censitaire while following the habits of the place or the city.

The censives ones are purely land: even in the cities, the concession relates only to the land naked one, the buildings and installations being brought by the censitaire.

The value of the taxable quota is immutable, it is not negotiable between the useful and eminent owners: its amount, in general stipulated in kind, is supposed to be fixed in an unmemorable way between the predecessors of the first censitaire and the first lord. When it is converted into money, the censitaire commoner always has the possibility of paying it in kind.

The taxable quota must rather be regarded as a local tax that like a rent: it corresponds specifically to the service of justice and safety that the seigniory (or the sovereign city) must ensure its inhabitants. It is thus the noble income par excellence. Other taxes, like the drudgeries, the size or said them, finance the others " services publics" like the maintenance of the ways of the seigniory, or church in the parish.

Censive: ground

The censive one is funds that a Seigneur of Fief conceded against the perpetual payment of a taxable quota. It sold the useful Propriété of it, property which will be able to pass to the heirs who, in their turn, and jointly, will have to continue to pay the taxable quota. The " censitaire" that which holds the funds with taxable quota, is responsible for this ground and owner of its production. The lord censier, that which has right to raise the taxable quotas, preserves the directicity, the eminent Propriété.

See too

Sources

Dictionary of right and practice - Mr. *** - 1769
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