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Privileged villenage

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

Black's Law Dictionary

In old English law

A species of villenage in which the tenants held by certain and determinate services; otherwise called "villein-soeage." Bract, fol.

209.

Now called "privileged copyhold," including the tenure in ancient demesne.

2 Bl. Comm. 99, 100.