nexed td the manor of land; a serf.—Villein services. Base services, such as villeins performed. 2 BI. Comm. 938. They were not, however, exclusively confined to villeins. since they might be performed by freemen, without impairing their free condition. Bract. fol. 24b.—Villein socage. In feudal and old Englisb law. A species of tenure in which the services to be rendered were certain and determinate, buat were of a base or servile nature; i. e., not suitable to a man of free and honorable rank. This was also called “privileged villeinage,” to distinguish it from “pure villeinage,” in which the services were not certain, but the tenant was obliged to do whatever he was cammanded. 2 BI. Comm. 61.

Lat. In the civil law. A defender. ‘