In the civil law. One who inhabits or occupies land near a place, as one who dwells by a river, or on the bank of a river. Dig. 43, 13, 3, 6. In feudal law. A husbandman; an agricultural tenant; a tenant of a manor. Spel man. A name given to a class of villeins in Italy. Barr. St. 302.
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