Rustici
Legal definition for Indian law research
Definition
Rustici, churls, clowns, or inferior country tenants, who held cottages and lands by the services of ploughing, and other labours of agriculture, for the lord. The land of such ignoble tenure was called by the Saxons gafalland, as afterwards socage tenure, and was sometimes distinguished by the name of terra rusticorum, Paroch. Antiq. 136
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