 | Patrick Edward Dove - Political science - 1856 - 532 pages
...sum of money,, and the like. Base services were such as awere fit only forpeasants, or persons of a servile rank; as to plough the lord's land, to make...out his dung, or other mean employments. .... " The first, most universal, and esteemed the most honorable species of tenure, was that by knightservice,... | |
 | Alexander Mansfield Burrill - Dictionaries, Law - 1859 - 736 pages
...Diet. BASE SERVICES. In old English law. Such services as were only fit for peasants, or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to carry out his dun?, or other mean employments : villein services. 2 Bl. Com. 61. BASE TENANTS. In English law. Tenants... | |
 | Archaeology - 1859 - 486 pages
...sum of money, and the like. Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, or other mean employments. The eertain services, whether free or base, were such as were stinted in... | |
 | Henry John Stephen - Law - 1863 - 812 pages
...sum of money, and the like. Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile rank; as to plough the lord's land, to make...quantity, and could not be exceeded on any pretence; as, Char. c. 31; 1 Edw. 3, c. 13, ;-!,_; on this subject in Co. I.in. by Harg. 1 Edw. 6, c. 4; FNB 175... | |
 | William Longman - Great Britain - 1863 - 528 pages
...shewing a Warder blowing a Horn on the Top of a Castle. or such as were fit only for peasants, — as, to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to carry out his manure, and so forth. These services, whether free Certain or base, were also either certain or uncertain.... | |
 | William Blackstone - Law - 1865 - 642 pages
...a sum of money, and the like. Bate services were suoh as wore fit only for peasants or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, or other mean employments. The certain services, whether free or base, were such as were stinted in... | |
 | Leicestershire Architectural and Archaeological Society - 1870 - 460 pages
...in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. Base services belonged to peasants, or others of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make...to carry out his dung, or other mean employments. There were also certain services and uncertain services. The certain services, whether free or base,... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - 1870 - 1186 pages
...standing. BASB SEKVICKS, under the feudal system, were such as were fit only for peasants or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to carry his manure, or other mean employments. BASBL, COUNCIL OF, ?> ', is the name given to an important ecclesiastical... | |
 | William Blackstone, David Mitchell Aird - Law - 1873 - 386 pages
...snm of money, and the like. Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile rank ; as to plough the lord's land, to make...certain services, whether free or base, were such as to pay a stated annual rent, or to plough such a field for three days. The uncertain depended upon... | |
 | Herbert Broom, Edward Alfred Hadley - Law - 1875 - 966 pages
...for peasants or persons of a servile rank; as to plough the lord's land, to make his hedges, to curry out his dung, or other mean employments. The certain...could not be exceeded on any pretence ; as, to pay u stated annual rent, or to plough such a field for three days. The uncertain depended upon unknown... | |
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Free services were such as were not unbecoming the character of a soldier or a freeman to perform; as to serve under his lord in the wars, to pay a sum of money, and the like. Base services were such as were fit only for peasants, or persons of a servile... 
