serfage
Example Sentences
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Let every species of serfage and of intermediary lien between the sovereign and the lowest class of people be abolished.
From The Modern Regime, Volume 1 by Durand, John
The rural tenants found themselves in a mesh of legal claims—old services revived, old dues enforced, endless suits in the King's courts grinding them again to serfage.
From Stray Studies from England and Italy by Greene, John Richard
They revived Old-World objections, which, to one acquainted with the most every-day workings of serfage, were ridiculous.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 10, No. 61, November, 1862 by Various
The story of St. Edmundsbury shows how gradual was the transition from pure serfage to an imperfect freedom.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by Green, John Richard
Whatever may be the result of the movement now made for their emancipation, it certainly can not be more depressing than the existing system of serfage.
From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)
