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Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence · Benjamin Vaughan Abbott · 1879
Dictionary of Terms and Phrases Used in American or English Jurisprudence
Bondmen or servile tenants. They were of four sorts: such as sold themselves for a livelihood; debtors sold for being incapable of paying their debts; captives in war, retained and employed as perfect slaves; nativi, bom servants, as such, solely, belonged to the lord. There were also said to be serm testimentales, those which were afterwards called covenan^ servants.
Cowel.