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Home Dictionary Name: freebornFreeborn
Born free not born in vassalage inheriting freedom...
Ingenuous
Of honorable extraction freeborn noble as ingenuous blood of birth...
Odal
Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples esp Scandinavians the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen also the ownership of such land The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance etc and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland where it is usually called by the variant form udal...
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....
Plagiarius
Plagiarius, one who knowingly kept in irons, or confined, sold, gave, or bought a citizen (whether freeborn or a freedman), or the slave of another; the offence being called plagium, Civ. Law....
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