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CHEVAGE Definition & Legal Meaning

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A sum of money paid by villeins to their lords in acknowledgment of their bondage. Chevagc seems also to have been used for a sum of money yearly given to a man of power for his countenance and protection as a chief or leader. Termes de la Ley ; Cowell.

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