Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In Roman law, involving or exacting servitude for debt.
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Besides slaves, Indians, and help, a species of nexal servitude also existed in all the colonies.
Customs and Fashions in Old New England Alice Morse Earle 1881
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