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Churle

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Churle [fr. ceorl, Sax.], a tenant at will, o free condition, who held lands of the thanes, on condition of rents and services: of two sorts; one who hired the lord's tenementary estate, like our farmers; the other that tilled and manured the demesnes (yielding work and not rent), and were called his sockmen or ploughmen, Spelm.

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