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Villenage

Defined in 2 dictionaries — Black's (1910), Kinney (1893)

Black's Law Dictionary

Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910

A servile kind of tenure belonging to lands or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded or were fit for a villein to do. Cowell. See Villein.

Pure villenage. A base tenure, where a man holds upon terms of doing whatsoever is commanded of him, nor knows in the evening what is to be done in the morning, and is always bound to an uncertain service. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 188.

A Law Dictionary and Glossary

George C. Kinney · 1893

Villeiiag:inm, /, I.

In old English law. The condition, or tenure of a villein; bondage.