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Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.

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.

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).