Nativus
Defined in 6 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Stimson (1881)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A born villein.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
See Neif.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
Lat. In old English law, a native; specifically, one bom into a condition of servitude; a born serf or villein.
— Nativa. A niefe or female villein. So called because for the most part band by nativity. Co. Litt. 1226.
— Nativi conventionarii. Villeins or bondmen by contract or agreement
— Nativi de stipite. Villeins or bondmen by birth or stock. Cowell.
— Nativitas. 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.
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
I. I.
In old English law. A born slave; a villein born; a villein,
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
nativa, I. A Nai/te. Natura Brevium, I. (The nal writs, with brief of Edward III., called distinguish it from the non facit saltum; ita gradually]; so neither Naturale est quidlibet is natural for a thing to it is created.