ignifies slavery, but in old law books it is used for villainage. Tenants in bondage paid rentos, did fealty, and were prohibited from felling trees in their own garden, without license of the lord. The widow of a tenant in bondage held her husband's estate quando exercit sine marito, as long as she lived single.

Bondage by the Forelock, or Bondagium per anteriorres crines copitis, was when a freeman renounced his liberty, and became a slave to some great man, which was done by the ceremony of cutting off a lock of hair from the forehead, and delivering it to his lord. If he reclaimed his liberty, or became fugitive from his master, he might be drawn again to his servitude by the nose, whence the origin of the popular menace to pull the nose.