Angaria

In Roman Law. A service or punishment exacted by government. They were of six kinds, viz., maintaining a post station where horses are changed; furnishing horses or carts; burdens imposed on lands or persons; disturbance, injury, anxiety of mind; the three or four day periods of fasting observed during the year; saddles or yokes borne by criminals from county to county, as a disgraceful mode of punishment among the Germans or Franks. Du Cange. In Feudal Law. Any troublesome or vexatious personal service paid by the tenant to his lord.

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