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Nativitas

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

Black's Law Dictionary

Villenage ; that state in which men were born slaves.

2 Mon. Angl. 643.

Nativo habendo

A writ which lay for a lord when his villein had run away from him. It was directed to the sheriff, and commanded him to apprehend the villein, and to restore him together with his goods to the lord.

Brown.