Legal Definition and Related Resources of Base tenants
Meaning of Base tenants
(1) Tenants who held their lands at the will of their superior lord, as distinguished from “frank tenants” (g. v.), who were freeholders.
(2) Tenants who rendered to their lords services in villeinage. Cowell.
What does Base Tenants mean in American Law?
The definition of Base Tenants in the law of the United States, as defined by the lexicographer Arthur Leff in his legal dictionary is:
Essentially the same as villeins, i.e., persons whose place in feudal society was dependent upon their performance of “base services,” i.e., manual labor, especially agricultural, rather than “higher” services like counsel to the lord, or military support.
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