Predial in A Sentence

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    Predial slavery, which had disappeared in Castile and Leon in the i3th century, existed unmodified in Aragon, and in its worst form, down to the Bourbon dynasty.

    2

    The chattel slave was becoming a predial serf, attached to the soil and owing his master certain fixed services and returns in kind.

    3

    The prevalence of predial slavery in Aragon and Valencia can be largely explained by the number of Mudjares, that is Mahommedans living under Christian rule, and of Moriscoes converted Mohammedans.