servitude : Idioms & Phrases

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freedom from involuntary servitude

  • noun a civil right guaranteed by the 13th amendment to the US Constitution
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Penal servitude

  • imprisonment with hard labor, in a prison, in lieu of transportation. Great Brit.
Webster 1913

Personal servitude

  • (Law), that which arises when the use of a thing is granted as a real right to a particular individual other than the proprietor.
Webster 1913

Predial servitude

  • (Law), that which one estate owes to another estate. When it related to lands, vineyards, gardens, or the like, it is called rural; when it related to houses and buildings, it is called urban.
Webster 1913

Real servitude, called also Predial servitude

  • (Civil Law), a burden imposed upon one estate in favor of another estate of another proprietor. Erskine. Bouvier.
Webster 1913

Urban servitude

  • . See Predial servitude, under Servitude.
Webster 1913