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torpparius, torpparijärjestelmä puhekieltä In the Middle Ages, a system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord.
(quote-book) this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae.
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(l) (system whereby a tenant would pay a rent or do some agricultural work for the landlord)