Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
LEIN
abbr. LAW ENFORCEMENT INFORMATION NETWORK.
privileged villeinage
See VILLEINAGE,
pure villeinage
Villeinage in which the services were not certain, but the tenant was obliged to do whatever he was commanded whenever the command came.
villein
Hist. A person entirely subject to a lord or attached to a manor, but free in relation to all others; a serf. ( At the time of the Domesday Inquest (shortly after the Norman Conquest), about 40% of households were marked as belonging to villeins: they were the most numerous element in the English population. CC FREEMAN.
villein in gross
See VILLEIN,
villein regardant
. A villein annexed to the manor of land.
villein service
Hist. A base service that a yillein performed, such as working on the lord's farm on certain days of the week (usu. two to four). 0 These services were not considered suitable to a man of free and honorable rank. - Also termed villein servitium. See WEEK-WORK.
villein socage
Socage in which the services, though certain, were of a baser nature than those provided under free socage.
villeinage
. Hist. 1. The holding of property through servitude to a feudal lord; a servile type of tenure in which a tenant was obliged to render to a lord base services. Cf. KNIGHTnSERVICE; SOCAGE. 2. A villein's status, condition, or service. - Also spelled villenage; villainage; villanage. "At the lower level the services were not always defined. The duties of the peasant were chiefly agricultural. If they were unfixed, so that the lord might in theory demand all manner of work, the tenure was 'unfree' and was called villeinage." J.H. Baker, An Introduction to English Legal History 260 (3d ed. 1990).