serfage
- a variation of serfdom.
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They include also serfage, vassalage, villanage, peonage, and all other forms of compulsory service for the mere benefit or pleasure of others.
From The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll, Vol. 11 (of 12) Dresden Edition?Miscellany by Ingersoll, Robert Green
There were no lords of manors, no feudalism, no serfage of any kind.
From The Hearts of Men by Fielding, H. (Harold)
She has abolished slavery, villenage, serfage, political aristocracy, asserted the equality of all men before the law, vindicated the sovereignty of the people, and established universal suffrage, complete social and territorial democracy.
From The American Republic : constitution, tendencies and destiny by Brownson, Orestes Augustus
A freeman might deliver himself to serfage by putting a leathern thong upon his neck.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
There is nothing to prevent the successor of Alexander the Second from restoring the system of serfage, with all its concomitant horrors.
From The Land of Thor by Browne, J. Ross (John Ross)
