| 单词 | tenure in villeinage | 
| 释义 | > as lemmastenure in villeinage  a.  The tenure by which a feudal villein held or occupied his land; tenure of lands by bond-service rendered to the lord or superior. Also called  tenure in villeinage. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > 			[noun]		 > tenure by service > tenure of villein villeinagea1325 villeining1471 bondage1651 villein-socage1766 α.  attributive.1679    T. Blount Fragmenta Antiquitatis 21  				This was an usual restraint of old in Villenage Tenure.β. 1565    T. Cooper Thesaurus  				Colonarii,..rusticall people, tenantes in villanages.1607    J. Norden Surueyors Dialogue  ii. 77  				A matter almost out of vse, a tenure called Villanage: that is, where the Tenants of a Mannor were Bondmen and Bond~women.a1618    W. Raleigh Remains 		(1644)	 59  				The bondmen..were grievously prest by their Lords in their tenure of Villanage.1681    H. Neville Plato Redivivus 133  				Not only all Villanage is long since abollished, but the other Tenures are so altered and qualified, that they signifie nothing towards making the Yeomandry depend upon the Lords.1776    A. Smith Inq. Wealth of Nations I.  iii. ii. 473  				Tenure in villanage gradually wore  out.       View more context for this quotation1812    G. Chalmers Hist. View Domest. Econ. Great Brit. & Ireland 23  				It is extremely difficult to ascertain the time, when villainage ceased in England, or even to trace its decline.1872    O. W. Holmes Poet at Breakfast-table vi  				We return to the state of villanage, holding our tenement-houses..of the State.figurative.a1657    G. Daniel Idyllia in  Poems 		(1878)	 IV. v. 132  				The Earth runs in one Tenure, and we but Prevent Repeals; Villainage is the Lott.γ. 1641    Rastell's Termes de la Ley 		(new ed.)	 f. 262  				To hold in pure Villeinage, is to do all that the Lord will him command.1845    S. Austin tr.  L. von Ranke Hist. Reformation in Germany 		(ed. 2)	 II. 225  				The abolition of the punishment of death, of the lesser tithes, and of villeinage were especially insisted on.1845    J. Williams Princ. Law Real Prop.  iii. 265  				Villeinage is to hold part of the demesnes of any lord..by villein services.a1325    MS Rawl. B. 520 f. 56v  				Also lith assise after excepcion of villenage ȝif þat vileyn vnder his louerdes power purchasede ani lond. c1450    Godstow Reg. 		(1905)	 207  				iiij. acres and an half acre and half a Rode of arable lond,..the whiche he holdith in vilenage or bondage. 1523    J. Fitzherbert Bk. Surueyeng xi. f. 12  				All these tenauntes maye holde their landes by dyuers tenures..: as by..burgage, tenures, and tenure in vyllenage. 1528–30    tr.  T. Littleton Tenures 		(new ed.)	 f. xiiiiv  				Tenure in vyllenage is moost properly whan a vylayne holdeth of his lorde to whom he is vylayne certayne londes and tenementes after the custome and maner or elles at the wyll of his lorde, and to doo to his vylayne seruyce. 1598    J. Marston Scourge of Villanie  i. ii. sig. C2  				Once Albion liu'd in such a cruell age That men did hold by seruile villenage. 1602    W. Fulbecke Parallele or Conf. Law  i. 211  				Villenage, is where a man holdeth of his Lord, either by doing vnto him some particular base seruice, and such a one is called a tenant by villenage, or by doing generally whatsoeuer base seruice his Lord will commaund and impose vpon him, and such a tenaunt is termed in our Law a villaine. 1607    J. Cowell Interpreter sig. S3v/1  				It was wont to be called tenure in villenage, and that this copihould is but a new name. 1607    J. Cowell Interpreter sig. Yyy4/2  				For euery one that houldeth in villenage, is not a villein, or a bond man. 1612    J. Davies Discouerie Causes Ireland 274  				There was but one Free-holder made in a whole Country, which was the Lord himselfe; al the rest were but tenants at Wil, or rather tenants in villenage. 1766    W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 92  				With regard to the folk-land, or estates held in villenage. 1818    W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. 		(ed. 2)	 I. 308  				Copyholds being derived from the tenure in villenage, they were not originally within the jurisdiction of the king's courts at Westminster. 1818    H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages II. viii. 384  				The tenements in villenage, whether by law or usage, were never separated from the lordship. 1875    W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. 		(1896)	 II. xvi. 475  				So villenage grew to be a base tenure, differing in degree rather than in kind from socage, and privileged as well as burdened. < as lemmas  | 
	
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