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PEON Definition & Legal Meaning

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n Mexico. A debtor held by his creditor in a qualified servitude to work out the debt; a serf. Webster. In India. A footman; a soldier; an inferior officer; a servant employed in the bus- iness of the revenue, police, or judicature.

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