sentences:  Anyone living in a fief became a 'tenant' paying rent to the church (usually a tenth of their grain crops) and working for an agreed number of days on the Seigneur's land.The system worked well because tenants had the use of the Seigneurial mill, saving them many hours of work, and disputes between tenants were settled by the Seigneurial court.Incidentally, the Seigneur did not preside over the court most of the time, but left it to deputies, or “prévôts”.