What is called the poor farmers of the manor system?
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The poor farmers are known as the manor system because :-
1. Manor system is also known as Manorialism.
2 it was an essential element of feudal society and was the organizing principle of rural economy that originated in the villa system of the Late Roman Empire.
3. Manorialism was characterized by the vesting of legal and economic power in the lord of a manor.
4. The lord was supported economically from his own direct landholding in a manor and from the obligatory contributions of the peasant population who fell under the jurisdiction of the lord and his court.
Manors each consisted of three classes of land:
DENESNE- The part directly controlled by the lord and used for the benefit of his household and dependents
DEPENDENT (serf or villein) holdings carrying the obligation that the peasant household supply the lord with specified labor services or a part of its output; and Free peasant land, without such obligation but otherwise subject to manorial jurisdiction and custom, and owing money rent fixed at the time of the lease.dditional sources of income for the lord included charges for use of his mill, bakery, or wine-press, or for the right to hunt or to let pigs feed in his woodland, as well as court revenues and single payments on each change of tenant.
Serfdom
It was the status of peasants under feudalism, specifically relating to manorialism.