serfage

We have had to examine its classes or divisions in their relation to freedom, personal slavery, and praedial serfage.

They include also serfage, vassalage, villanage, peonage, and all other forms of compulsory service for the mere benefit or pleasure of others.

A freeman might deliver himself to serfage by putting a leathern thong upon his neck.

And in most of the countries of continental Europe when serfage was abolished or went out of use, those who had cultivated the land as serfs remained in possession of rights as well as subject to obligations.

Would not every dog-brother of them be better at home, working his serfage peaceably for his land?