Bondage

Bondage, slavery; also a kind of tenure or occupation....

Liberty

The state of a free person exemption from subjection to the will of another claiming ownership of the person or services freedom opposed to slavery serfdom bondage or subjection...

Slavery, that civil relation in which one man has absolute power over the liberty of another. It cannot subsist in England. See Sommersett's case, (1771-2) 20 St. Tr. 1; Lofft, 1; Broom's Const. Law, pp. 65 et seq., where it was held that a person forcibly detained as a slave was entitled to be discharged on a habeas corpus.1. A situation in which one person has absolute power over the life, fortune and liberty of another 2. The practice of keeping individuals in such a state of bondage or servitude, Black's Law Diction-ary, 7th Edn., p. 1393.The system of colonial slavery ws abolished by 3 & 4 Wm. 4, c. 73. See 5 Geo. 4, c. 113; 7 Wm. 4 & 1 Vict. c. 91; 2 & 3 Vict. c. 73; 6 & 7 Vict. c. 98; 7 & 8 Vict. c. 26; 8 & 9 Vict. c. 122; 26 & 27 Vict. c. 34; and 32 & 33 Vict. c. 75. The various Acts for carrying into effect the treaties for the more effectual suppression of the slave trade were amended and consolidated by the 36& 37 Vict. c. 88 (many previous Acts being thereby repealed). See,...

Nexi

Nexi, among the Romans, persons freeborn, who, for debt, were delivered bound to their creditors, and obliged to serve them until they could pay their debts.Means debtors given in bondage to creditors until their debts have been paid, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1065.Next, is only an abbreviation of the word 'nearest'. This word not only suggests propinquity but also order or succession, or relation, as well as 'propinquity', Southgate v. Clinch, 27 LJ Ch 654....

Neifc

Neifc, means a person born into bondage or serfdom; specify, a female serf, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 1060....

Nativitas

Nativitas [fr. neifty], the servitude, bondage, or villeinage of woman, Leg. Wm. I....

Servitude

The state of voluntary or compulsory subjection to a master the condition of being bound to service the condition of a slave slavery bondage hence a state of slavish dependence...

Ragnarok

The so called ldquoTwilight of the Godsrdquo called in German Goumltterdaumlmmerung the final destruction of the world in the great conflict between the AEligsir gods on the one hand and on the other the giants and the powers of Hel under the leadership of Loki who is escaped from bondage...

Manumit

To release from slavery to liberate from personal bondage or servitude to free as a slave...

Manumission

The act of manumitting or of liberating a slave from bondage...

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