A servile kind of tenure belonging to lands or tenements, whereby the tenant was bound to do all such services as the lord commanded, or were fit for a vil- lein to do. Cowell. See VILLEIN. Pure villenage. A base tenure , where a man holds upon terms of doing whatsoever is commanded of him, nor knows in the evening to be done in the morning, and is always bound to an uncertain service. 1 Steph. Comm. (7th Ed.) 18S.
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