predialadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈpriːdɪəl/, U.S.

/ˈpridiəl/

Forms: late Middle English predeall, late Middle English–1500s predyal, late Middle English–1600s prediall, 1500s predyall, 1500s predyalle, 1600s– praedial, 1600s– predial; Scottish pre-1700 praediall, pre-1700 prediall, pre-1700 1700s– praedial, pre-1700 1700s– predial.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praedialis.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin praedialis relating to estates, farms (frequently c1225–1684 in British sources, especially in decima praedialis predial tithe) < classical Latin praedium farm, estate, land ( < praed- , praes person who acts as surety or security ( < prae- pre- prefix + vas bail, surety: see vadimony n.) + -ium -y suffix⁴) + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French prédial (1472 or earlier), Old Occitan predial, Spanish predial (a1263), Italian prediàle (a1419). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin praedialia (plural) landed estates (c1220 in a British source).

A. adj.

1. Of a tithe: arising or derived from the produce of the soil. Frequently in predial tithe. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [adjective] > relating to tithes

predial1461

decimal1641

tithal1884

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > consisting of produce, stock, or animals

tenth sheaf1387

predial1530

predial tithe1530

whitage1537

tithe pig1555

garb tithea1640

flax-tithe1692

1461–2 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §15. m. 8 Almanere tithes aswell prediall as personell.

a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 168 (MED) Tyþis predyalys he shal payyn to þe chirche to whyche þe maner & þe lond longith to, but custum be into þe contrarie.

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxxxvi^v The predyal tythe of trees is of such trees as bryng forth frutes.

1619 Sir J. Sempil Sac. Handled App. 37 All predial tithes are..personal; they dischange euen the persons laborers. But all personall tithes cannot be held prediall.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Predial Tythes, are those we call great Tythes, as of Corn and Hay.

1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. 128 The Priests of every particular Parish, who are commonly called the Rectors, unless the Predial Tythes are impropriated, and then they are stiled Vicars.

1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 376 Hence many things, as wood in particular, is in some countries a predial, and in some a vicarial tithe.

1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor I. x. 138 He began to inquire very seriously into the real value of his first fruits and tythes, personal, predial, and mixed: that is, his great tythes and his small.

1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 71 The prædial-tithe..arises from every product of the earth, whether grain, pulse, hay, plants, fruit, or wood, and becomes due whenever the crop is taken, even although there may be more than one grown upon the same land within the year.

1872 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 456/1 Tithes are of three kinds—prædial, mixed, and personal. Prædial tithes are those which arise immediately from the earth itself, as of grain of every kind, fruits, and herbs.

1950 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 145 Predial tithes seem to have been usually collected in kind, though monetary compositions, temporary and permanent, are mentioned more frequently as the [16th] century proceeds.

2000 M. Haren Sin & Society viii. 147 Praedial tithes there [sc. in London] had been commuted to an annual rate.

2. Consisting of or relating to farms or lands; rural, agrarian. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [adjective] > agrarian

prediala1529

agrarian1777

the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > real or immovable > consisting of landed property

prediala1529

landed1711

society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective]

fieldena1425

rustic?1440

citylessc1450

champestrea1492

rural?a1500

rustical1542

agrestc1550

predial1592

champestrial1612

agrestic1617

agrestical1623

agrested1650

upland1654

countrified1756

agrestian1812

country1827

mofussil1828

agrestial1840

landward1844

bucolic1846

out-country1939

land-bound1972

a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. C.vi^v For they wyll haue no losse Of a peny nor of a crosse Of theyr predyall landes.

1592 H. Unton Corr. (1847) 322 I neglect not prediall matters, though I observe most polliticall.

1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 47 A pecunial or prædial recompense will..be very answerable to the nature of that service.

1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 100 Farm Lands,..having passed.., from the state of common pasturage, to the predial state.

1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. iii. 42 Against the quick, astute, excitable intellect, which is commonly allowed to a dense population,..many contrasts are set up in favour of the predial race.

2011 Notes & Queries Sept. 372/1 A case from the mid-twentieth century..returns the word [drink-corn] to its predial origins.

3. Relating to or arising from the ownership or occupation of farms or lands. Now rare.In later use esp. with reference to Ireland.

ΚΠ

1641 Lords Spiritual 4 Because a Bishop having place in Parliament as a Peere, is, in respect of his possessions, as a prediall Nobility, and not inherent in his person.

a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. Gunpowder Treason in Wks. (1831) IV. 282 The delinquent loseth all his right whatsoever, prædial, personal, and of privilege.

1704 T. Wood New Inst. Imperial or Civil Law ii. ii. 72 Predial or real Services, are Rights which one Estate owes to another Estate; as because I am Owner of such a Ground, I have the right of a way thro' the Ground of another; or because I am possessed of this House, my Neighbour cannot beat out a Window out of his own House towards me, or build his House higher without my leave.

1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. ii. 139 A Real or Predial Service is a Burden affecting one Man's Land or Tenement, for the use of that of another's directly.

1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 570 To repress the predial or rural disorders of Ireland.

1870 Times 30 May 11/3 If it could be enforced, we should soon have a predial revolt.

1900 R. Dunlop Daniel O'Connell & Revival National Life Irel. xii. 274 It was a calumny..to assert that political agitation was in any way connected with predial outrage.

1912 A. Stephenson Hist. Roman Law ii. x. §143. 406 No one can acquire a prædial servitude in either town or country unless he has landed estates, nor can a person become subject to prædial servitude unless he is the owner of a landed estate.

4. Of a slave, serf, etc.: attached to the land; required to work on an estate. Of a tenant, etc.: owing similar service to a landlord. Of slavery, bondage, obligation, etc.: deriving from the land.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adjective] > attached to farmland

predial1761

1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. App. i. 151 There were two kinds of slaves..; household slaves.., and prædial or rustic.

1793 J. L. Buchanan Trav. W. Hebrides Introd. 6 The scallag, whether male or female, is a poor being, who, for mere subsistence, becomes a predial slave to another.

1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. ii. 104 Scarcely raised above the condition of predial servitude.

1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 300 The condition of the inferior ranks..had been that of villanage or predial bondage.

1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 189/1 If once owning herself a prædial servant, she would be sensible that this confession extended..in the hearer's thoughts to having incurred indignities of this horrible kind.

1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 18 In the Domesday of St. Paul's we find that praedial services were due from three classes of persons, called villani, cotarii, bordarii.

1946 G. Barraclough Origins Mod. Germany v. xiii. 395 The nobility made agriculture a paying concern by the merciless extortion of heavy predial services.

1959 E. Lipson Econ. Hist. Eng. (ed. 12) I. ii. 46 The servitude of the villein was predial. The serf cultivated the demesne fields and the services due from him were agricultural.

2003 Canad. Jrnl. Lat. Amer. & Caribbean Stud. (Nexis) June 324 A system of apprenticeship..simultaneously bound the liberated slaves to their former owners for a period of six years in the case of praedial apprentices and four years in the case of non-praedial workers.

B. n.

†1. A predial tithe. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > consisting of produce, stock, or animals

tenth sheaf1387

predial1530

predial tithe1530

whitage1537

tithe pig1555

garb tithea1640

flax-tithe1692

1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxxxviii There can not be two predyalles of one thynge.

1798 H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-causes III. Table of Contents The vicar of Gristwick, in Norfolk, is only entitled to certain modusses, as set forth, in lieu of the tithes of corn, hay, and other predials, for the lands called Great Furr Closes, the Callas Closes, the Milker's Meadow, and the Green Gate Lands.

2. A predial slave; a serf, bondsman, etc., who works on the land. Now historical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > serf

serf1611

predial1836

the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > (semi-)slave

serf1761

field hand1774

predial1836

1836 Times 5 Aug. 2/4 The unexpired term of apprenticeship of 27 male prædials, 37 female ditto, 13 boys ditto, 17 girls ditto, 7 male non-prædials, 11 female ditto, one boy ditto.

1844 R. W. Emerson Addr. W.I. Emancip. 11 These conditions were, that the prædials should owe three-fourths of the profits of their labour to their masters for six years, and the nonprædials for four years.

1873 W. J. Gardner Hist. Jamaica 293 The term of apprenticeship was limited to six years for field hands or predials, as they were termed.

1909 Amer. Hist. Rev. 14 243 The manors (Fronhöfe) had developed courts whose jurisdiction included others that the predials of the manor.

1938 J. Marks Family of Barrett xxxii. 422 Slaves who were field workers or predials were to become apprentices and work for their former owners for twelve years.

1987 R. Dirks in K. F. Kiple Afr. Exchance 173 Food stores often ran low as this work progressed, and despite the practice of planters distributing high-calorie supplements to their predials, the stress showed.

Compounds

predial larceny n. Caribbean the theft of growing crops or animals of low value from another's land.

ΚΠ

1877 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 16 Feb. 2/3 The Attorney-General will bring forward six new bills;..the fifth to consolidate and amend the laws relating to prædial larceny.

1932 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 22 16 Crime of the more serious sort is not frequent, although pilfering and predial larceny are common.

1961 M. Klass East Indians in Trinidad vi. 211 The most frequent cause of conflict is that of fowls invading a neighbor's garden... Next most frequent cause is praedial larceny.

2002 Voice (Nexis) 5 Aug. 6 The Jamaica Agricultural Society is in a quandary when it comes to dealing with praedial larceny... Small farmers continuously have to grapple with the acts of criminality which deplete their fields.

predial servitude n. Law (chiefly Scots Law and South African) the subjection of one property to the property of another owner for the benefit of the dominant property; a servitude (servitude n. 3a) constituted over one piece of land in favour of the owner of another.

ΚΠ

1699 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) II. 34 'Tis at least a predial servitude, conform to which their possessions in the muir having been ever since regulated, it must yet [etc.].

a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) ii. ix. §5 Real or predial [servitudes are constituted] principally in favour of a tenement, and only by consequence to a person, as the owner of that tenement.

1927 W. M. Gloag & R. C. Henderson Introd. Law Scotl. 429 The distinction between praedial and personal servitudes is of little practical importance as the only personal servitude is liferent, and all other servitudes are praedial.

1996 M. J. de Waal in R. Zimmermann & D. Visser Southern Cross xxiv. 796 The establishment of praedial servitudes in South African law has moved outside the narrow range of agricultural activities.

predial thief n. Caribbean (now rare) a person who engages in predial larceny.

ΚΠ

1896 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 23 Jan. 1/6 When he reaps his crops (if the prædial thieves will allow him) it is to supply the daily wants of his rich neighbour.

1957 E. Clarke My Mother who fathered Me vi. 146 Praedial thieves gave them a lot of trouble. They often had to sit up at nights and watch their yams and could not be sure of reaping their crops because of thieves.

Derivatives

prediˈality n. rare the quality or state of being predial.

ΚΠ

1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 28 There has been in this condition of the theów a certain element of prædiality.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	predial
释义	predialadj.n. Brit. /ˈpriːdɪəl/, U.S. /ˈpridiəl/ Forms: late Middle English predeall, late Middle English–1500s predyal, late Middle English–1600s prediall, 1500s predyall, 1500s predyalle, 1600s– praedial, 1600s– predial; Scottish pre-1700 praediall, pre-1700 prediall, pre-1700 1700s– praedial, pre-1700 1700s– predial. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin praedialis. Etymology: < post-classical Latin praedialis relating to estates, farms (frequently c1225–1684 in British sources, especially in decima praedialis predial tithe) < classical Latin praedium farm, estate, land ( < praed- , praes person who acts as surety or security ( < prae- pre- prefix + vas bail, surety: see vadimony n.) + -ium -y suffix⁴) + -ālis -al suffix¹. Compare Middle French, French prédial (1472 or earlier), Old Occitan predial, Spanish predial (a1263), Italian prediàle (a1419). With use as noun compare post-classical Latin praedialia (plural) landed estates (c1220 in a British source). A. adj. 1. Of a tithe: arising or derived from the produce of the soil. Frequently in predial tithe. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [adjective] > relating to tithes predial1461 decimal1641 tithal1884 society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > consisting of produce, stock, or animals tenth sheaf1387 predial1530 predial tithe1530 whitage1537 tithe pig1555 garb tithea1640 flax-tithe1692 1461–2 Rolls of Parl.: Edward IV (Electronic ed.) Parl. Nov. 1461 §15. m. 8 Almanere tithes aswell prediall as personell. a1500 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (Hunterian) (1980) ii. 168 (MED) Tyþis predyalys he shal payyn to þe chirche to whyche þe maner & þe lond longith to, but custum be into þe contrarie. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxxxvi^v The predyal tythe of trees is of such trees as bryng forth frutes. 1619 Sir J. Sempil Sac. Handled App. 37 All predial tithes are..personal; they dischange euen the persons laborers. But all personall tithes cannot be held prediall. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Predial Tythes, are those we call great Tythes, as of Corn and Hay. 1707 J. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia (ed. 22) ii. 128 The Priests of every particular Parish, who are commonly called the Rectors, unless the Predial Tythes are impropriated, and then they are stiled Vicars. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. I. 376 Hence many things, as wood in particular, is in some countries a predial, and in some a vicarial tithe. 1794 T. Holcroft Adventures Hugh Trevor I. x. 138 He began to inquire very seriously into the real value of his first fruits and tythes, personal, predial, and mixed: that is, his great tythes and his small. 1834 Brit. Husbandry (Libr. Useful Knowl.) I. 71 The prædial-tithe..arises from every product of the earth, whether grain, pulse, hay, plants, fruit, or wood, and becomes due whenever the crop is taken, even although there may be more than one grown upon the same land within the year. 1872 Chambers's Encycl. IX. 456/1 Tithes are of three kinds—prædial, mixed, and personal. Prædial tithes are those which arise immediately from the earth itself, as of grain of every kind, fruits, and herbs. 1950 Econ. Hist. Rev. 3 145 Predial tithes seem to have been usually collected in kind, though monetary compositions, temporary and permanent, are mentioned more frequently as the [16th] century proceeds. 2000 M. Haren Sin & Society viii. 147 Praedial tithes there [sc. in London] had been commuted to an annual rate. 2. Consisting of or relating to farms or lands; rural, agrarian. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [adjective] > agrarian prediala1529 agrarian1777 the mind > possession > possessions > [adjective] > real or immovable > consisting of landed property prediala1529 landed1711 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adjective] fieldena1425 rustic?1440 citylessc1450 champestrea1492 rural?a1500 rustical1542 agrestc1550 predial1592 champestrial1612 agrestic1617 agrestical1623 agrested1650 upland1654 countrified1756 agrestian1812 country1827 mofussil1828 agrestial1840 landward1844 bucolic1846 out-country1939 land-bound1972 a1529 J. Skelton Colyn Cloute (?1545) sig. C.vi^v For they wyll haue no losse Of a peny nor of a crosse Of theyr predyall landes. 1592 H. Unton Corr. (1847) 322 I neglect not prediall matters, though I observe most polliticall. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 47 A pecunial or prædial recompense will..be very answerable to the nature of that service. 1796 W. Marshall Rural Econ. W. Eng. I. 100 Farm Lands,..having passed.., from the state of common pasturage, to the predial state. 1845 R. W. Hamilton Inst. Pop. Educ. iii. 42 Against the quick, astute, excitable intellect, which is commonly allowed to a dense population,..many contrasts are set up in favour of the predial race. 2011 Notes & Queries Sept. 372/1 A case from the mid-twentieth century..returns the word [drink-corn] to its predial origins. 3. Relating to or arising from the ownership or occupation of farms or lands. Now rare.In later use esp. with reference to Ireland. ΚΠ 1641 Lords Spiritual 4 Because a Bishop having place in Parliament as a Peere, is, in respect of his possessions, as a prediall Nobility, and not inherent in his person. a1667 Bp. J. Taylor Serm. Gunpowder Treason in Wks. (1831) IV. 282 The delinquent loseth all his right whatsoever, prædial, personal, and of privilege. 1704 T. Wood New Inst. Imperial or Civil Law ii. ii. 72 Predial or real Services, are Rights which one Estate owes to another Estate; as because I am Owner of such a Ground, I have the right of a way thro' the Ground of another; or because I am possessed of this House, my Neighbour cannot beat out a Window out of his own House towards me, or build his House higher without my leave. 1722 W. Forbes Institutes I. ii. 139 A Real or Predial Service is a Burden affecting one Man's Land or Tenement, for the use of that of another's directly. 1833 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 33 570 To repress the predial or rural disorders of Ireland. 1870 Times 30 May 11/3 If it could be enforced, we should soon have a predial revolt. 1900 R. Dunlop Daniel O'Connell & Revival National Life Irel. xii. 274 It was a calumny..to assert that political agitation was in any way connected with predial outrage. 1912 A. Stephenson Hist. Roman Law ii. x. §143. 406 No one can acquire a prædial servitude in either town or country unless he has landed estates, nor can a person become subject to prædial servitude unless he is the owner of a landed estate. 4. Of a slave, serf, etc.: attached to the land; required to work on an estate. Of a tenant, etc.: owing similar service to a landlord. Of slavery, bondage, obligation, etc.: deriving from the land. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > [adjective] > attached to farmland predial1761 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. to Henry VII I. App. i. 151 There were two kinds of slaves..; household slaves.., and prædial or rustic. 1793 J. L. Buchanan Trav. W. Hebrides Introd. 6 The scallag, whether male or female, is a poor being, who, for mere subsistence, becomes a predial slave to another. 1818 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages I. ii. 104 Scarcely raised above the condition of predial servitude. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 300 The condition of the inferior ranks..had been that of villanage or predial bondage. 1847 T. De Quincey Joan of Arc in Tait's Edinb. Mag. Mar. 189/1 If once owning herself a prædial servant, she would be sensible that this confession extended..in the hearer's thoughts to having incurred indignities of this horrible kind. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 18 In the Domesday of St. Paul's we find that praedial services were due from three classes of persons, called villani, cotarii, bordarii. 1946 G. Barraclough Origins Mod. Germany v. xiii. 395 The nobility made agriculture a paying concern by the merciless extortion of heavy predial services. 1959 E. Lipson Econ. Hist. Eng. (ed. 12) I. ii. 46 The servitude of the villein was predial. The serf cultivated the demesne fields and the services due from him were agricultural. 2003 Canad. Jrnl. Lat. Amer. & Caribbean Stud. (Nexis) June 324 A system of apprenticeship..simultaneously bound the liberated slaves to their former owners for a period of six years in the case of praedial apprentices and four years in the case of non-praedial workers. B. n. †1. A predial tithe. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > impost, due, or tax > fixed proportion dues or taxes > [noun] > tithe > consisting of produce, stock, or animals tenth sheaf1387 predial1530 predial tithe1530 whitage1537 tithe pig1555 garb tithea1640 flax-tithe1692 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student l. f. cxxxviii There can not be two predyalles of one thynge. 1798 H. Wood Coll. Decrees Court Exchequer in Tithe-causes III. Table of Contents The vicar of Gristwick, in Norfolk, is only entitled to certain modusses, as set forth, in lieu of the tithes of corn, hay, and other predials, for the lands called Great Furr Closes, the Callas Closes, the Milker's Meadow, and the Green Gate Lands. 2. A predial slave; a serf, bondsman, etc., who works on the land. Now historical. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > serf serf1611 predial1836 the world > food and drink > farming > farmer > [noun] > farm worker > (semi-)slave serf1761 field hand1774 predial1836 1836 Times 5 Aug. 2/4 The unexpired term of apprenticeship of 27 male prædials, 37 female ditto, 13 boys ditto, 17 girls ditto, 7 male non-prædials, 11 female ditto, one boy ditto. 1844 R. W. Emerson Addr. W.I. Emancip. 11 These conditions were, that the prædials should owe three-fourths of the profits of their labour to their masters for six years, and the nonprædials for four years. 1873 W. J. Gardner Hist. Jamaica 293 The term of apprenticeship was limited to six years for field hands or predials, as they were termed. 1909 Amer. Hist. Rev. 14 243 The manors (Fronhöfe) had developed courts whose jurisdiction included others that the predials of the manor. 1938 J. Marks Family of Barrett xxxii. 422 Slaves who were field workers or predials were to become apprentices and work for their former owners for twelve years. 1987 R. Dirks in K. F. Kiple Afr. Exchance 173 Food stores often ran low as this work progressed, and despite the practice of planters distributing high-calorie supplements to their predials, the stress showed. Compounds predial larceny n. Caribbean the theft of growing crops or animals of low value from another's land. ΚΠ 1877 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 16 Feb. 2/3 The Attorney-General will bring forward six new bills;..the fifth to consolidate and amend the laws relating to prædial larceny. 1932 Ann. Assoc. Amer. Geographers 22 16 Crime of the more serious sort is not frequent, although pilfering and predial larceny are common. 1961 M. Klass East Indians in Trinidad vi. 211 The most frequent cause of conflict is that of fowls invading a neighbor's garden... Next most frequent cause is praedial larceny. 2002 Voice (Nexis) 5 Aug. 6 The Jamaica Agricultural Society is in a quandary when it comes to dealing with praedial larceny... Small farmers continuously have to grapple with the acts of criminality which deplete their fields. predial servitude n. Law (chiefly Scots Law and South African) the subjection of one property to the property of another owner for the benefit of the dominant property; a servitude (servitude n. 3a) constituted over one piece of land in favour of the owner of another. ΚΠ 1699 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) II. 34 'Tis at least a predial servitude, conform to which their possessions in the muir having been ever since regulated, it must yet [etc.]. a1765 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) ii. ix. §5 Real or predial [servitudes are constituted] principally in favour of a tenement, and only by consequence to a person, as the owner of that tenement. 1927 W. M. Gloag & R. C. Henderson Introd. Law Scotl. 429 The distinction between praedial and personal servitudes is of little practical importance as the only personal servitude is liferent, and all other servitudes are praedial. 1996 M. J. de Waal in R. Zimmermann & D. Visser Southern Cross xxiv. 796 The establishment of praedial servitudes in South African law has moved outside the narrow range of agricultural activities. predial thief n. Caribbean (now rare) a person who engages in predial larceny. ΚΠ 1896 Daily Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 23 Jan. 1/6 When he reaps his crops (if the prædial thieves will allow him) it is to supply the daily wants of his rich neighbour. 1957 E. Clarke My Mother who fathered Me vi. 146 Praedial thieves gave them a lot of trouble. They often had to sit up at nights and watch their yams and could not be sure of reaping their crops because of thieves. Derivatives prediˈality n. rare the quality or state of being predial. ΚΠ 1897 F. W. Maitland Domesday Bk. & Beyond 28 There has been in this condition of the theów a certain element of prædiality. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2007; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1461
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