corvee

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To do so, they resurrected corvée, a 19th-century Haitian law for indentured labor.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

Mr. Burbidge secured one, a Grammatophyllum, ‘as big as a Pickford’s van,’ which a corvée of Dyaks could not lift.

From The Woodlands Orchids by Boyle, Frederick

The principal are land transfer fees, pawnbrokers’ and other licences, duties on reed flats, commutation of corvée and personal services, &c.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 2 "Chicago, University of" to "Chiton" by Various

See Land: employed by the temples, 211 form of tenancy, 65, 253-256, 196, 197 Metrology, contributions to, 380 Micheau stone, 131 Militia, statute-labor, corvée.

From Babylonian and Assyrian Laws, Contracts and Letters by Johns, C. H. W. (Claude Hermann Walter)

The Intendant of Caen had already proposed to the inhabitants of that district the alternative plan of commuting the corvée into a money payment.

From Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) Turgot by Morley, John