SOMME. 1746. SEIGNEURY OF COURCELLES-SOUS-MOYENCOURT. COUTUM - Lot 122

SOMME. 1746. SEIGNEURY OF COURCELLES-SOUS-MOYENCOURT. COUTUME D'AMIENS - Printed trial brief for Messire Pierre LANGLOIS, Chevalier, Seigneur De SEPTENVILLE, having acquired the Seigneurie de COURCELLES en PICARDIE (Courcelles-sous-Moyencourt 80), against Firmin VEISSIER, Ancien Maire de POIX (Poix-de-Picardie 80), 1746; Affaire de retrait féodal : rare 31-page folio brief, Headband: "The question which the appeal submits to the Court's Judgment is a pure question of law: It consists in knowing whether, in the Coutume d'AMIENS, a redemption of seigneurial royalties for the price of money, an act which by a particular provision of this Coutume gives rise to the rights of the Seigneur, does not at the same time provide an opportunity for feudal withdrawal. This question is of infinite interest to all Lords who have lands in the district of the Coutume d'AMIENS, because if such alienations were exempt from withdrawal, they would all soon see their direct claims diminish, disappear ...".