predial

Besides these, there is a population of predial slaves, divided and subdivided.

Predial servitude indeed, in some of its modifications, has always been the great bar to improvement.

They were household slaves, performing menial duties, and predial or rustic slaves who labored on the soil.

Predial services, on the other hand, might be rendered as well by free tenants as by villeins.

Unfortunately a widespread indulgence in predial larceny is a great hindrance to agriculture as well as to moral progress.