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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A nation of Catholic ruins and Catholic serfs.
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But in the new electronic workplace, the corporate serf cannot see his master, because his corporate master is a fiction.
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Plans for the reform of local government were now in step with those for the emancipation of the serfs.
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Since land allotments would be carved out of land that belonged to the gentry, serfs would have to pay for them.
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Soon afterwards, as in the Western Middle Ages, there were masses of peasant serfs, and great feudal States.
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The most fundamental limitation concerned jurisdiction over private serfs.
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They are the feudal nobility who own the land, and the landless serfs who work the land.
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They came as term serfs for a period of five years.