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Nativitas

Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

In old English law. Vl Uenage; that state in which men were born slaves. 2 Mon. Angl. 643. Called by Britton naifte. Britt. c. 31.

Ballentine's Law Dictionary

James A. Ballentine · 1916

Villenage, which see.

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

Villenage ; that state in which men were born slaves. 2 Mon. Angl. 643.
—Nativo habendo, A writ which lay for a lord when his villein had run away from him. It was directed to the sheriff, and commanded him to apprehend the villein, and to restore him together with his goods to the lord. Brown.

Defined under Nativus in Black's Law Dictionary.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

I. I.

In old English law. Villeinage; that state in which men were born slaves.

A Dictionary of Law

Henry Campbell Black · 1891

In old Englishlaw. Vil lenage; that state in which men were born slaves. 2 Mon, Angl. 643.