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  History Speaks
Permanent corvee tax was registered and there were also temporary additional corvee taxes.
The corvee assigned by Gaxag and manorial lords accounted for over 50 percent of the labor of serf households, and could go as high as 70-80 percent.
They were assigned a total of 21,260 corvee days for the whole year, the equivalent of an entire year's labor by 67.3 people.
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  AllRefer.com - corvEe (Ancient History, Middle Ages And Feudalism) - Encyclopedia
There were national and local variations, but in broad terms the corvEe proper included work on the lord's portion of the manorial property and many attendant duties.
During the feudalization of the late Roman Empire, the corvEe system was part of the social and economic system, but towns and all individuals were able to liberate themselves by money payment instead of services.
In France the royal corvEe, compulsory work on public roads, was introduced in the 18th cent.
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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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 Star Wars One-Shot Session Summary 01/28/2001
Corvee informs the characters that this sort of weapon must be licensed, and that bribery is not an acceptable way to expedite these licenses.
She told him and his comrades that the characters and the Senator were going to try and drive the planet away from the Empire and into the clutches of the New Republic.
Ice Tray is describing to the other characters his theory that most of the security forces are loyal because they've managed to keep the woman Corvee and her goons in custody when General Heliar appears on the scene.
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 Govt. White Papers - china.org.cn
Children of serfs were registered the moment they were born, setting their life-long fate as serfs.
Serf-owners ruthlessly exploited serfs through corvee and usury.
The serfs engaged in hard labor year in and year out and yet had no guaranteed food or clothing.
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 From corvee to toll (from roads and highways) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
From corvee to toll (from roads and highways) --  Encyclopædia Britannica
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 Letter to and from The ekklesia
(The word corvee' meant 'contribution,' signifying one's obligation to the state.) In some cases the corvee' meant a specified amount of time given to the state every year, as prescribed by law.
It is not the 16th Amendment that creates an obligation of contribution in the form of a tax but your voluntary entry into a corvee system of slavery.
This does not mean he tore out their hair; rather, the baldness was the result of carrying loads on their heads as corvee labor gangs.
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 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Solomon
This division largely ignored the ancient tribes, and seems to show that the tribal system was passing away.
Like most powerful rulers, Solomon signalized his reign by numerous splendid buildings, and for this purpose made extensive use of the corvee or forced labour.
This again led to increased exertion of authority by the central government; and, incidentally, the complete subjugation of the Canaanites was shown by the fact that they had to bear the main portion of this burden.
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 Exodus
  Places in the Bible where more categorical opposition to slavery is expressed or implied include (1) treating corvee as a curse (e.g.
The three kinds of slavery/labor exploitation: debt (indenture), corvee (statute, sovereign), chattel (household property).
  Exodus apparently about an instance of corvee, though not as usually defined.
www.sfts.edu /rcoote/lecture16.htm   (242 words)

  
 Medieval Sourcebook: A Dispute Over Exaction of the Corvée, 1081   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-20)
Note also the use of the Water Ordeal.
At Chauvency a certain advocate, Alberic by name, in demanding undue corvees so threatened the serfs of the monastery that the cow of a certain poor man miscarried while ploughing and the poor man himself bore its yoke all day instead.
Adelo, enraged against Alberic, blushed for this deed, and determined on a day for the abbot to prove the case.
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