servitude
noun
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Servitude is slavery or anything resembling it. The entire black population of colonial America lived in permanent servitude. And millions of the whites who populated this country arrived in "indentured servitude", obliged to pay off the cost of their journey with several years of labor. Servitude comes in many forms, of course: in the bad old days of the British navy, it was said that the difference between going to sea and going to jail was that you were less likely to drown in jail.
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Angie Martoccio, Rolling Stone, 31 Oct. 2024
To Simone, child servitude is an evil so plain even CNN can condemn it.
—Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker, 2 Nov. 2024
The state's constitution was changed in the 1970s to remove the exemption for slavery, but the involuntary servitude exception is still included.
—Gordon G. Chang, Newsweek, 1 Nov. 2024
California and Nevada would join a growing national trend that started with voters in Colorado repealing involuntary servitude in 2018.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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“Servitude.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/servitude. Accessed 1 Dec. 2024.
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servitude
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Note: A predial servitude is transferred along with the ownership of the dominant estate, and the servient estate is always taken subject to the servitude. A predial servitude cannot be transferred separately from the dominant estate.
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