corvee

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One polity in this nation developed the position of uparaja under Trailokanat and used a corvee system of nai and phrai before it fell to Alaungpaya.

From Slate • Apr. 9, 2013

So far as a painstaking study of the records can disclose, the corvee obligation was never looked upon as an imposition of any moment.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

The corn-husking corvee, for reasons which do not need elucidation, was of course the most popular of these.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

Six days of corvee per year was all that the seigneur could demand; and he usually asked for only three, that is to say, one day each in the seasons of ploughing, seedtime, and harvest.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

Many allusions have been made, in writings on the old regime, to the habitant's corvee or obligation to give his seigneur so many days of free labour in each year.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett