Angaria

In Roman Law. A service or punishment exacted by government. They were of six kinds, viz., maintaining a post station where horses are changed; furnishing horses or carts; burdens imposed on lands or persons; disturbance, injury, anxiety of mind; the three or four day periods of fasting observed during the year; saddles or yokes borne by criminals from county to county, as a disgraceful mode of punishment among the Germans or Franks. Du Cange. In Feudal Law. Any troublesome or vexatious personal service paid by the tenant to his lord. Spelman.

In Roman and Feudal Law. A service exacted by the government for public purposes; in particular, the right of a public officer to require the service of vehicles or ships; personal service exacted from a villein by his lord. Dig. 50, 4, 18, § 29; Spelman, Gloss.

A term used in the Roman law to denote a forced or compulsory service exacted by the government for public purposes ; as a forced rendition of labor or goods for the public service. See Dig. 50, 4, 18, 4.

In maritime law. A forced service, (onus,) imposed on a vessel for public purposes; an impressment of a vessel. Loco, de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 5, §§ 1-6.

In feudal law. Any troublesome or vexatious personal service paid by the tenant to his lord. Spelman.

gr.-l. A forced service by a vessel, imposed poses; an impressment of a vessel.

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A term used in the Roman law to denote a forced or compulsory service exacted by the government for public purposes; as a forced rendition of labor or goods for the public service. See Dig. 50, 4, 18, 4.

In maritime law. A forced service, (onus,) imposed on a vessel for public purposes; an impressment of a vessel. Locc. de Jure Mar. lib. 1, c. 5, §§ 1-6.

In feudal law. Any troublesome or vexatious personal service paid by the tenant to his lord. Spelman.

gr., I. A forced or excessive service of a vassal. The impressment of a vessel. Angleterre,/A England.

L. Lat. [Gr. Ayya^^iot, from dj'/a^os, one aent or compelled to go.] In feudal lav. That which is exacted by a supeiior beyond what is due, {idquodprcB' ter dehiium exigitur,) Spehnan. An onerous or vexatious service required from a tenant by his lord. Cowell. Blount. Otherwise derived from the Fr. angurie, personal ser?ice, that which a man is bound to perform in his own person. Id, Angariation is used as an English word by old writers. Richardson's Diet.