villenage

villenage
Synonyms and related words:
absolutism, adverse possession, alodium, bond service, bondage, burgage, captivity, claim, colony, control, de facto, de jure, debt slavery, dependency, deprivation of freedom, derivative title, disenfranchisement, disfranchisement, domination, enslavement, enthrallment, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, feudalism, feudality, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, freehold, gavelkind, having title to, helotism, helotry, hold, holding, indentureship, knight service, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, mandate, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, peonage, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, restraint, seisin, serfdom, serfhood, servility, servitude, slavery, socage, squatting, subjection, subjugation, sublease, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, thrall, thralldom, title, tyranny, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, vassalage, villein socage, villeinhold, yoke

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  • Villenage — Vil len*age, n. [See {Villanage}.] (Feudal Law) Villanage. Blackstone. [1913 Webster] …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • villenage — Villanage Vil lan*age (?; 48), n. [OF. villenage, vilenage. See {Villain}.] 1. (Feudal Law) The state of a villain, or serf; base servitude; tenure on condition of doing the meanest services for the lord. [In this sense written also {villenage},… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • villenage — noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo French, from vilein, vilain Date: 14th century 1. tenure at the will of a feudal lord by villein services 2. the status of a villein …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • villenage — noun In feudal times, the condition of a villein, one of the lowest class in a state of menial servitude …   Wiktionary

  • VILLENAGE —    in feudal times the condition of a villein, one of the lowest class in a state of menial servitude …   The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • villenage — vil·len·age …   English syllables

  • villenage — …   Useful english dictionary

  • Pure villenage — Pure Pure, a. [Compar. {Purer}; superl. {Purest}.] [OE. pur, F. pur, fr. L. purus; akin to putus pure, clear, putare to clean, trim, prune, set in order, settle, reckon, consider, think, Skr. p? to clean, and perh. E. fire. Cf. {Putative}.] 1.… …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • base tenure — Villenage …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Крестьяне — Содержание: 1) К. в Западной Европе. 2) История К. в России до освобождения (1861). 3) Экономическое положение К. после освобождения. 4) Современное административное устройство К. I. К. в Западной Европе. Судьбы крестьянского или земледельческого …   Энциклопедический словарь Ф.А. Брокгауза и И.А. Ефрона

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