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VILLEIN
In France: a rural or urban non-noble. A rural free-man in England: a peasant with enough land to support his family.
Engl. law. A species of slave during the feudal times.'
The feudal villein of the lowest order was unprotected as to property, and subjected to the post ignoble services; but his circumstances were very different from the slave of the southern states, for no person was, in the eye of the law, a villein, except as to his master; in relation to all other persons he was a freeman.
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