The corvee as an incident of land tenure has thus disappeared in France.
Moreover, the inequality of the corvee added to the evil.
It is precisely the same system as that in force under the Roman Empire, and if it differ from the corvee it is mainly in the fact that the burden is equitably distributed, and that the work done is of actual value to those who do it.
In Egypt, the corvee has been employed from time immemorial, more especially for the purpose of cleaning out the irrigation canals.
The corvee is now employed only to a limited extent to guard the banks of the Nile during flood.
Though the corvee formed a characteristic feature of the feudal system, it was, as an institution, much older than feudalism, and was already developed in its main features under the Roman Empire.
In some districts it was possible to purchase exemption, and the more wealthy paid no more for the privilege than the humblest fellah, consequently the corvee fell with undue hardship on the poorer classes.
In the case of France, in the 17th century the so-called corvee royale was added to the burden of the peasants, i.
Occasionally the local authorities employ the corvee system to dig out the bed of a canal, but as a rule roads are left to take care of themselves.
Once he knew his drill as an Infantryman, he began to feel that the proportion of training and instruction to that of corvee and fatigues was small.
And what would poor Feodor say when he came in from corvee and found that she had let herself get caught like this at last?
These men she saw now working in the dread corvee had been forced from their homes by a counterfeit Khedivial order.
She thought he was referring obliquely to the corvee and the other thing in which her life-work was involved.
And when the habitant worked for his seigneur in this way the latter had to furnish him with both food and tools, a requirement which greatly impaired the value of corvee labour from the seigneur's point of view.
Six days of corvee per year was all that the seigneur could demand; and he usually asked for only three, that is to say, one day each in the seasons of ploughing, seedtime, and harvest.
Many allusions have been made, in writings on the old regime, to the habitant's corvee or obligation to give his seigneur so many days of free labour in each year.
So far as a painstaking study of the records can disclose, the corveeobligation was never looked upon as an imposition of any moment.
As the "swine," however, was clothed with the bristles of authority, the extra corveehad to be performed in spite of all curses and anathemas.
No one excited himself about extra corvee and confinement to barracks.
The whole lot of you extra corvee this afternoon, under your supervision, corporal!
The hateful slavery of the Cagayanes had been abolished; the forced cultivation of tobacco was a thing of the past, and in all the Archipelago the corvee had been reduced.
That there would be no conscription nor corvee (personal work), that the Pope would name several Indian bishops, and that the Spanish priests would return to the Peninsula.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "corvee" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
