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 | | This corvee soon developed into a servile relationship existing in point of fact, not in point of law, until Russia, the liberator of the world, made it legal under pretence of abolishing serfdom. |
 | | The code of the corvee, which the Russian General Kisseleff proclaimed in 1831, was of course dictated by the Boyards themselves. |
 | | According to the "Reglement organique," as this code of the corvee is called, every Wallachian peasant owes to the so-called landlord, besides a mass of detailed payments in kind: (1), 12 days of general labour; (2), one day of field labour; (3), one day of wood carrying. |
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