Arimanni

I. I In mediceval law. A class of freemen employed in agriculture, otherwise called conditionales, originarii, tributales, etc.

A medisxval term for a class of agricultural owners of small allodial farms, which they cultivated in connection with larger farms belonging to their Jords, paying rent and service for the latter, and being under the protection of their superiors. Military tenants holding lands from the emperor. Spelman.

Lat. [from Sax. here, lord, and man, vassal.] In mediaeval law. A class of freemen employed in agriculture, otherwise called conditionales, originarii, tributales, &c. They seem to have been persons who possessed some small allodial property of their own, and, besides that, cultivated some farm belonging to their more wealthy neighbors, for which they paid a fixed rent, and bound themselves likewise to perform several small services, such as ploughing a certain quantity of their landlord's ground, assisting him in harvest and vintage work, &c. 1 Robertson's Charles V., Appendix, note ix. LL. Longob. lib. 3, tit. 12, l. 5. Id. tit. 13, l. 3. Spelman, voc. Arimannus.