 | 1774 - 428 ページ
...•nfranchifement to i'uch wretched pcrfons a«fell to thti.-lkuv, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty ; which conferred a right of protection, and railed the tenant to a kind of elhte fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other condition.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1800 - 680 ページ
...enfranchifement to fuch wretehed perfons as fell to their fhare, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty ; which conferred a right of protection, and raifed the tenant to a kind of eftate fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other conditionm.... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 ページ
...enfranchisement to such wretched persons, as fell to their share, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty ; which conferred a right of...inferior to every other condition™. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins, either from the word viiis, or else, as sir Edward Coke tells... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - 480 ページ
...enfranchisement to such wretched persons as fell to their share, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty, which conferred a right of...the tenant to a kind of estate superior to downright slaury, but inferior to every other condition. Thii they called villenage, and the tenants villeini.... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 ページ
...wretched persons as fell to their share, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fralty, which conferred a right of protection, and raised...superior to downright slavery, but inferior to every ottur condition. This they called aillenage, and the tenants villeins. These villeins, belonging jirincipally... | |
 | Charles Barton - 1821 - 696 ページ
...the oath of fealty; which conferred a right of protection, (the obligations of fealty being mutual), and raised the tenant to a kind of estate superior...inferior to every other condition *. This they called vilJainage, and the tenants villains, either from the word vilis, or else, as Sir Edward Coke tells... | |
 | sir William Blackstone - 1825 - 626 ページ
...but the feoffor, or alienor. persons as fell to their share, by admitting them, as "well as others, to the oath of fealty ; which conferred a right of...downright slavery, but inferior to every other condition m. This they called villenage, and the tenants] villeins, either from the word vilis, or else, as sir... | |
 | 1826 - 450 ページ
...enfranchifement to fuch wretched perfons as fell to their ihare, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty; which conferred a right of protection, and raifed the tenant to a kind of cftate fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other condition.... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 394 ページ
...enfranchisement to such wretched persons as fell to their share, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty, which conferred a right of...inferior to every other condition. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins; either from the word vilit, or else, as sir Edward Coke tells... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 ページ
...enfranchisement to such wretched persons as fell to their share, by admitting them, as well as others, to the oath of fealty, which conferred a right of...inferior to every other condition. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins ; either from the word vilis, or else, as sir Edward Coke tells... | |
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On the arrival of the Normans here, it seems not improbable, that they who were strangers to any other than a feudal state, might give some sparks of enfranchisement to such •wretched persons as fell to their share, by admitting them, as well as others,... 
