Chevage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A sum of money paid by villeins to their lords in acknowledgment of their villeinage. It was paid to the lord in token of his being chief or head. It was exacted for permission to marry, and also for permission to remain without the dominion of the lord. When paid to the king,