A legal conflict between a serf living on a manor with another serf is resolved by the Lord of the Manor or by a court system of sherriffs and bailiffs. Before this, conflicts were settled through parties beating each other.
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Your question is not entirely correct in its premise; a serf is not a slave and does not have an owner. A serf is a subject of a land owner whom the serf would address as lord.
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In a feudal system, a serf would remain a serf no matter how hard they were to work.
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I doubt that they thought about the serf one way or the other. The serf was to do the work and didn't require much thought from his master.
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A possible antonym of serf could be "free person" or "freeman," as a serf is a person who is bound to the land and essentially owned by a lord, whereas a free person has autonomy and is not bound to servitude.
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Vinton G. Serf is the Vice President and Chief Internet Evangelist at Google.
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The serf wouldn't lose nothing because they were slaves , and they didn't have nothing .
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If a lord gave a knight land with serfs on it the serfs would take care of it and if the knight moved the serfs wouldn't. Once you are a serf you can't go back neither can your family. So your children and their children and their children and so on have to be a serf. So to answer your question: A serf stayed with the land. I also gave you a definition on a serf. And there is a bunch of sentences with serfs in them above.
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Some people would say slave, but that is not really correct because a slave could be sold, and a serf could not. Also, a slave had to do whatever told, but a serf simply had to fulfill obligatory duties.
A villein was very like a serf, except that a villein lived in town, but a serf was agricultural.
A cotter was very like a serf, but we really do not have other information on what a cotter was. It is thought that the cotter was technically free to leave the land, but this is speculation.
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A serf was a person below the lord who was tied to the fief, or piece of land, that they worked on. In other words, a serf was every class below the lords who worked for the lord.
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The serf worked in the fields all day, bound to the land and serving the lord of the manor.
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The word "serf" means slave and a monk was of the clergy. They were different people with different stations in life.
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A serf worked because he was a slave and did what he was told to do.
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Monique Andrée Serf died on November 24, 1997 at the age of 67.
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To work for the lord or manor and fight when there was a war. A vassal was a serf and the word "serf" is Greek for slave.
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a serf helped a vassal because the serf came with the vassals land and that helped him with the land and any other needs for land he was not a slave but one step above the slave
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The serf worked tirelessly in the fields for his lord, without hope of escaping his feudal obligations.
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1) If a serf could run away for a year and one day, it was considered free.
2) if the noble gave the serf permission, it could stop working on the land
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I am afraid this question makes no sense. My only guess is what language is the word serf. It is Latin for slave.
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Serf's weren't freed and the modern life has nothing to compare with the middle ages.
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Monique Andrée Serf died on November 24, 1997 at the age of 67.
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A medieval times serf wore ragged and old clothing because they were the lowest form of feudalism.
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The serf earned protection from the Lords and providing the serf safety they need to grow crops. And they also earned land.
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A peasant who is bound to land is a serf, while a fief is an estate granted to a vassal.
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