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Engl. law. A species of slave during the feudal times.'
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The feudal villein of the lowest order was unprotected as to property, and subjected to the post ignoble services; but his circumstances were very different from the slave of the southern states, for no person was, in the eye of the law, a villein, except as to his master; in relation to all other persons he was a freeman. Litt. Ten. s. 189, 190; Hallam's View of the Middle Ages, vol. i. 122, 124; vol. ii. 199.
By John Bouvier
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Breus mole
- An aborted which fetal surface placenta presents numerous hematomata, there absence blood-vessels in the chorion, and ovum is much smaller than it should be according to duration of pregnancy.