Estelle, You are correct. This system lasted until sometime around the peasant revolts of c. 1848 Robert Estelle Daniels <stelly__57@hotmail.com> wrote: Thank you Dr Former - that clarifies it somewhat for me. Am I right in assuming that the "feudal lord" would have owned the land? Regards Estelle >From: Tat417761@cs.com >Reply-To: croatia@rootsweb.com >To: croatia@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [CROATIA] Feudal system in Croatia >Date: Sun, 1 Apr 2007 04:18:52 EDT > >Estelle, >serf was not a slave or a servant. He had use of the land and paid a >specified part of the fruit to the feudal lord who took care of the >administration and >defense. >Some similarity to our tax payments. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >in the subject and the body of the message _________________________________________________________________ Advertisement: Chat with 1000s of Sexy Singles right now http://a.ninemsn.com.au/b.aspx?URL=http%3A%2F%2Flavalife9%2Eninemsn%2Ecom%2Eau%2Fclickthru%2Fclickthru%2Eact%3Fid%3Dninemsn%26context%3Dan99%26locale%3Den%5FAU%26a%3D25447&_t=754951090&_r=chat&_m=EXT ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CROATIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message To learn about my October 2007 Heritage and History tour of Croatia http://www.croatia-in-english.com/rj/jerin2007.pdf