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Wainage

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In old English law

The team and instruments of husbandry belonging to a countryman, and especially to a villein who was required to perform agricultural services. WAINAGIUM (Saxon woeg; Lat. vagina). What is necessary to the farmer for the cultivation of his land. Barr. Obs. St. p.

12; Magna Charta, c. 14.

According to Selden and Lord Bacon, it is not the same as contenementum, used in the same chapter of Magna Charta,. meanmg the power of entertaining guests, or countenance, as common people say.