单词 | mainmortable |
释义 | mainmortable, a. and n. Hist.|meɪnˈmɔːtəb(ə)l| [a. F. mainmortable, f. mainmorte: see prec.] A. adj. Applied to serfs (in France) who were not at liberty to alienate their possessions if they died childless; also to their possessions.
[1727–41: see prec.] 1779Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 544 The mainmortable heritages, situated in our lands and signiories. 1889M. B. Betham-Edwards Introd. A. Young's Trav. France 21 These bond-servants..were up to that time mainmortable. B. n. A ‘mainmortable’ serf.
1779Gentl. Mag. XLIX. 545 We ordain that the Droit de Suite over mainmortables shall henceforth be abolished and suppressed. 1882W. B. Weeden Soc. Law Labor 84 The lords..held the right to pursuit, by which they could follow a mainmortable who had abandoned the land. |

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