He also liberated the unfree villeins on royal estates.
The remotest kinsmen of each lord of land, poor as they might be, were valued for their swords, and were billeted on the unfree or servile tenants, who gave them free quarters.
Many free sokemen were caught up in the subjugation by baron landlords and were reduced almost to the condition of the unfree villein.
Also, the Crown's protection of all its subjects in criminal matters blurred the distinction between free and unfree men.
However, the free man still had a place in court proceedings which the unfree villein did not.
The manor court heard cases which arose out of the unfree tenures of the lord's peasantry.
Under unfree economic conditions, this state of affairs is bound to exist.
Its most significant feature is not polygamy, of which more anon, but "the organization of a certain number of free and unfree persons into one family under the paternal authority of the head of the family.
In the Semitic form this head of the family lives in polygamy, the unfreemembers have wife and children, and the purpose of the whole organization is the tending of herds in a limited territory.
After the conquest of the Roman empire, these retainers of kings together with the unfree Roman courtiers formed the other half of the nobility of later days.
The essential points are the assimilation of the unfree element and the paternal authority.
The Daer-Clanna, or unfree tribes, have left no history.
An arbitrary division once limited the free clans to six in the southern half-kingdom, and six in the north; and the unfree also to six.
The purchased slaves and unfree tribes tilled the soil, and practised the mechanic arts.
The fishcurers at the end of the season find the price per cran after they have ascertained the state of the markets, that is, during the month of October, and then pay the unfree men the price, which is usually 1s.
But then he would be unfreeand bound to fish to this new creditor?
The unfree men have to fish to the curers to whom they owe money on general terms?
I understand the men at Wick are divided into two classes: free men and unfree men?
Would you say that two-thirds of the men at Wick are unfree men?
Would you be surprised to hear that an extensive curer in Wick estimated the number of free men at nearly one third, and that the unfree men were two thirds?
Unfree in some sense they mostly were; and all that we have seen of the early evolution of Greece and Rome goes to suggest that their status was essentially depressed.
Being themselves freemen, the peasants of Schwyz objected to being tried and judged by men of unfree rank, as the ministerials were.
These are the two extremes, between which there were a great many unfree classes or groups, each differing from the other in the degree of personal or property rights which they possessed.
The highest grade was composed of those who were personally free, and who could amass property; but they were unfree in that they had no legal status.
For anunfree man of the church may never become free.
If any unfree man belonging to the church shall disobey this edict, he shall be fined one-half of all his goods and he shall be reduced to his former unfree condition.
The unfree man may secure a champion for himself if, because of age or disease, he is unable to fight.
For some falsely declare that they are free because their lords, in many cases, cannot prove the servitude which they [their unfree subjects] are trying in a dishonest way to escape.
While the number of unfree was great, they were not all equally unfree.
Otto III forbids the unfree classes to attempt to free themselves, ca.
Otto III Forbids the Unfree Classes to Attempt to Free Themselves, ca.
We strictly forbid the unfree of the churches to be set free, and we order all those who have, by any device, been freed to be reduced to servitude again.
Here the land which was held by the unfree or servile classes is clearly distinguished from that which was held as fiefs by freemen, knights, etc.
The free peasants might own many thralls or slaves, who were unfree men.
Through the manor court he also received certain payments due to him from all free and unfree tenants, in particular those connected with the transfer of land, the heriot and the fines already mentioned.
Each free or tributary state had a distinct territory, but the unfree communities were not bounded by the territorial bounds of the others.
The inference, therefore, is that a skilled craftsman of unfree race became by virtue of his craft a freeman.
Sidenote: Læt and Slave] It was this sharing in the common land which marked off the freeman or ceorl from the unfree man or læt, the tiller of land which another owned.
Whatever rights the unfreevillager might gain in the general social life of his fellow villagers, he had no rights as against his lord.
It availed little that Erasmus rejected the doctrine of the Unfree Will, that he refused to be a Lutheran or a Zwinglian, an Anabaptist or a socialist.
That principle he found in the Augustinian doctrine of predestination and the unfree will.
They were unfree in condition, and in most manors their services were modelled upon those of the villeins.
The dearth of commerce whether in goods or in men led gradually to the conversion of the unfree laborers from slaves into serfs or villeins attached for generations to the lands on which they wrought.
It may be noted that the prevalent husbandry was not such as generally attracted unfree labor in other districts, and that the climate was poorly suited to a negro population.
Massachusetts was likewise inaugurated by a corporation of Puritans, which at the outset endorsed the institution of unfree labor, in a sense, by sending over from England 180 indentured servants to labor on the company's account.
When the king had made this resolution known, it appeared to those who had a great desire to return, and were thus forbidden, that they were unreasonably and hardly dealt with, and that they were placed in the condition of unfree men.
Footnote 45: Unfree tenure is illustrated below in section III.
The unfree swineherd and the unfree bee-keeper, after death, shall be worthy of one same law.
To unfree women belong 8 pounds of corn for food, one sheep or 3d.
But she still quite unmistakably remains his chattel in theory; for the habitual rendering of vicarious leisure and consumption is the abiding mark of the unfree servant.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "unfree" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
