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The offerings made upon the altar or to a church.
adj
(historical) Opposing enclosure, the post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
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Alternative form of apanage [(historical) A grant (especially by a sovereign) of land (or other source of revenue) as a birthright.]
n
(law, Scotland) The right of servitude to enter a property in order to take water from the river, loch, well or other source on the burdened property.
n
(historical) A shareholder of the Assiento company involved in the slave trade.
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Alternative form of avener [(historical) An officer of the king's stables whose duty it was to provide oats for the horses.]
n
(historical) A document that named the father of a child whose parents were not married, and stipulated payments (to the mother or to the parish) to be made for its upkeep
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The condition of a bondservant; slavery.
n
Alternative spelling of bonded labour [Labour required to be provided to repay a debt, considered tantamount to slavery.]
n
A man who is bound in servitude.
n
The state of being a bondman.
n
The state of being a bondsman.
n
(uncommon) A bondsman or bondswoman.
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(Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
n
(law) A legal doctrine that designates a person's abode, or any legally occupied place, such as a vehicle or workplace, as a place in which that person has protections and immunities permitting him or her to use force to defend against intrusion.
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(law, historical) A common law doctrine developed in England during the Middle Ages, whereby a woman's legal existence, upon marriage, was subsumed by that of her husband, particularly with regard to ownership of property and protection.
n
(historical) The degradation of a vassal to the position of a serf.
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A condition similar to slavery where people are unable to control their lives or their work due to unpaid debts.
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(uncountable, British History) The post-feudal process of subdivision of common lands for individual ownership.
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(obsolete, transitive) To make a vassal of.
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(law, historical) An allowance or alimony granted to a divorced woman, taken from the husband's estate for her support.
n
The state of being a freeholder.
n
(historical) A person held against their will in Kuwait under the rule of Saddam Hussein.
n
(law, historical) A condition of being held as surety for a pledge, as to appear before a magistrate for trial after release from gaol.
n
(chiefly historical) A debt bondage worker who is under contract of an employer for a specified period of time, in exchange for transportation, food, drink, clothing, lodging, and other necessities.
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(especially Ireland) One in the possession or occupancy of land from which another has been evicted; one who engages in a landgrab.
n
(historical) A Scottish land division, part of a large estate.
adj
Obsolete spelling of paravail [At the bottom; lowest (said of feudal tenants).]
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A person who holds a plot of land.
n
(Ancient Rome, historical) A tax collector, especially one working in Judea and Galilee during New Testament times (1st century C.E.) who was generally regarded as sinful for extorting more tax than was due, and as a traitor for serving the Roman Empire.
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(historical) An owner of lands in the purlieu.
n
The unlawful personal appropriation of public lands; wrongful encroachment on, or enclosure of properties belonging to the public (e.g. highways, sidewalks, forests, harbors).
n
(Britain, historical) A fund, set up in the early 18th century, to financially assist the poor members of the clergy.
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A person who makes money by renting out their possessions to others; a participant in the sharing economy.
n
(law) A qualified beneficial interest severed or fragmented from the ownership of an inferior property and attached to a superior property or to some person other than the owner; the most common form is an easement.
n
(obsolete) servants collectively
n
(Australia, historical) One who occupied Crown land.
adj
(of items) Subject to tithe.
n
Alternative form of tithe-payer [One who pays a tithe.]
n
Alternative form of truage [(obsolete) Tribute, as paid to a ruler or superior.]
v
(transitive) To treat as a vassal or to reduce to the position of a vassal; to subject to control; to enslave.
n
State of being a vassal; vassalage.
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The condition of being a vassal.
n
Synonym of vassaldom (“state of being a vassal; vassalhood”)
n
(obsolete, UK, law) The right of pasturing animals in a forest
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