- a variation of praedial.
predial
Americanadjective
adjective
Example Sentences
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It has been taken to denote two degrees of servitude—the predial dependence of a colonus and the personal dependence of a true slave.
From Villainage in England Essays in English Mediaeval History by Paul Vinogradoff
Account of the mode of rectifying the inequalities of the predial taille in the generality of Montauban, 352.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
Again, in the ninth and tenth centuries, pestilence and famine accelerated the extinction of predial slavery by weakening the numbers of the free population.
From On Compromise by John Morley
Therefore it would seem that the clergy are bound to pay predial tithes.
From Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) Translated by Fathers of the English Dominican Province by Saint Thomas Aquinas
Montauban, the inequalities in the predial taille in that generality, how rectified, 352.
From An Inquiry Into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations by Germain Garnier
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