 | 1774 - 428 pàgines
...conferred a right of protection, and railed the tenant to a kind of elhte fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other condition. This they, called villenage, and the tenants villeins, either from the word tnlis, or elfe, as Sir Edward Coke tells us, a 'villa; becauie they... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1791 - 566 pàgines
...conferred a right of prote&ion, and raifed the tenant to a kind of eftate fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other condition".. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins, either from the word vilis, or elfe, as fir Edward Coke tells US", a villa ; becaufe they... | |
 | Vicesimus Knox - 1797 - 516 pàgines
...conferred a right of protection, and raife the tenant to a kind of eftate fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other condition. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins, either from the word •vilit, or elfe, as Sir Edward Coke tells us, à 'villa; becaufe they... | |
 | William Blackstone - 1807 - 698 pàgines
...the Normans here, it seems not improbable, that they who were strangers to any other than a feodal state, might give some sparks of enfranchisement to...condition™. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins, either from the word viiis, or else, as sir Edward Coke tells us", a villa ; because they... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1819 - 482 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...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 pàgines
...Emptoret, a service could lie reserved to, or a tenure created from, anyone but the feoffor, or alienor. persons as fell to their share, by admitting them,...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 pàgines
...conferred a right of protection, and raifed the tenant to a kind of cftate fuperior to downright flavery, but inferior to every other condition. This they called villenage, and the terants villeins, cither from the word •oilis, or elfe, as Sir Edward Coke tells us, à villa ; becaufe... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 892 pàgines
...the Normans here, it seems not improbable that they, who were strangers to any other than a féodal state, might give some sparks of enfranchisement to...condition. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins ; either from the word vilis, or else, as sir Edward Coke tells us, a villa; because they... | |
 | William Hone - 1827 - 394 pàgines
...the Normans here, it seems not improbable that they, who were strangers to any other than a feodal state, might give some sparks of enfranchisement to...condition. This they called villenage, and the tenants villeins; either from the word vilit, or else, as sir Edward Coke tells us, a villa; because they lived... | |
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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,... 
