Culvertage
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
A base kind of slavery; the confiscation or forfeiture, which takes place when a lord seizes his tenant's estate. Blount; Du Cange. CUM ACTIO FUERIT MERE CRIMINAL- !s, institui poterit ab initio crimlnallter vel civlliter. When an action is merely criminal, it can be instituted from the beginning, either criminally or civilly.
Bracton, 102.