1) French word used in English 2) Labor 3) Labour 4) Toil
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French for
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Corvée, or statute labour, was unpaid labour imposed by the state on certain classes of people, such as peasants, for the performance of work on public projects. The obligation of corvée work by tenant farmers on private landed estates has been widespread throughout history. The corvée was the earliest and most extensive form of taxation, which...
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A royal or seigneurial tax, taken in the form of forced labor. It came in many forms, including compulsory military service and compulsory tillage of fields. Most commonly, the term refers to a royal corvée requiring peasants to maintain the king's roads.
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• (n.) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
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unpaid labour that a European vassal owed a lord or that a citizen in later times owed the state, either in addition to or in lieu of taxes. See ...
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Cor`vee' noun [ French
corvée , from Late Latin
corvada ,
corrogata , from Latin
corrogare to entreat together;
cor- +
rogare to ask.]
(Feudal Law) An obligation to perform certain services, as the repair of roads, for the lord or sovereign.
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Corvee is a form of forced labour. The term is especially applied to the unpaid labour owed by tenants in France to their lord under the feudal system. The system died out with serfdom in Europe, except in France where it was continued in the form of a labour or money payment for the upkeep of roads and was not finally abolished there until 1792.
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n] - unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
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noun unpaid labor (as for the maintenance of roads) required by a lord of his vassals in lieu of taxes
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unpaid labor for one day, as on the repair of roads, exacted by a feudal lord. · an obligation imposed on inhabitants of a district to perform services, as repair of roads, bridges, etc., for little or no remuneration.
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Number of days each week that the serf was required to work for his lord.
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