villein
31villein — /vilan/ In feudal law, a person attached to a manor, who was substantially in the condition of a slave, who performed the base and servile work upon the manor for the lord, and was, in most respects, a subject of property belonging to him …
32villein — A tenant of the lowest order in the feudal period. See 2 Bl Comm 22. Possessed by the lord of the manor, the same as one of a flock. Jackson v Phillips, 96 Mass (14 Allen) 539, 562 …
33villein — n. hist. a feudal tenant entirely subject to a lord or attached to a manor. Etymology: ME, var. of VILLAIN …
34villein socage — Medieval Hist. land held by a tenant who rendered to a lord specified duties of a servile nature. Cf. free socage. [1760 70] * * * …
35villein services — /vilan sarvasaz/ In feudal law, base services, such as villeins performed. They were not, however, exclusively confined to villeins, since they might be performed by freemen, without impairing their free condition …
36villein socage — /vilan sokaj/ In feudal and old English law, a species of tenure in which the services to be rendered were certain and determinate, but were of a base or servile nature; i.e., not suitable to a man of free and honorable rank. This was also called …
37villain — villein …
38villanum socagium — Villein socage …
39Land-Tenure in the Christian Era — • The way in which land has been held or owned during the nineteen hundred years which have seen in Europe the rise and establishment of the Church is a matter for historical inquiry. Strictly speaking, the way in which such ownership or tenure… …
40Manorialism — This article is about the medieval system. For the 17th century system in Canada, see Seigneurial system of New France. Ploughing on a French ducal manor in March Les Très Riches Heures du Duc de Berry, c.1410 Manorialism, an essential element of …
