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Censuales

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Censuales, a species or class of the oblati or voluntary slaves of churches or monasteries, i.e., those who, to procure the protection of the Church, bound themselves to pay an annual tax or quit-rent out of their estates to a church or monastery. Besides this, they sometimes engaged to perform certain services, Jac. Law Dict.

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