serfage

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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

There were no lords of manors, no feudalism, no serfage of any kind.

From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)

A crowd of rustics, maddened at the thought of revived claims of serfage, of interminable suits of law, poured into the streets of the town.

From History of the English People, Volume II The Charter, 1216-1307; The Parliament, 1307-1400 by Green, John Richard

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

Tendency toward serfage in the Code of 1705.

From The Middle Period 1817-1858 by Burgess, John William