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Serf

Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Black's Law Dictionary

In the feudal polity, the serfs were a class of persons whose social condition was servile, and who were bound to labar and onerous duties at the wlll of their lords. They differed from slaves only in that they were baund to their native sell, instead of being the absolute property of a master.