Villenage
Black's Law Dictionary · Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Black's Law Dictionary
A servile kind of tenure belonging to lands or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded or were fit for a villein to do. Cowell. See Villein.
— Pure villenage. A base tenure, where a man holds upon terms of doing whatsoever is commanded of him, nor knows in the evening what is to be done in the morning, and is always bound to an uncertain service. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 188.