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VILLENAGE [2 records]

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Record 1 2015-03-19

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
CONT

The main type of unfree tenancy was villenage, initially a modified form of servitude. Whereas the mark of free tenants was that their services were always predetermined, in unfree tenure they were not; the unfree tenant never knew what he might be called to do for his lord.

OBS

unfree tenant : historical term.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)

Spanish

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Record 2 2015-02-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Property Law (common law)
DEF

A kind of estate in land, which was superior to downright slavery, but inferior to every other condition.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Droit des biens et de la propriété (common law)
Key term(s)
  • villenage

Spanish

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