| 单词 | statute labour |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstatute labour statute labour n. now historical unpaid work for the maintenance of public services, esp. highways or roads, required by statute to be undertaken by the residents or tenants of a particular district; also attributive, as statute labour road, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > forced, statute, or feudal work week-worklOE servicec1300 corvée1340 task-work1582 statute work1683 statute labour1729 statute duty1753 slave labour1820 forced labour1872 1729 Anno Regni Georgii II Regis 303 If any Person or Persons, keeping a Team or Teams..shall neglect and refuse to do..their due Statute Labour..they..shall respectively forfeit and pay the Sum of Ten Shillings per Team. 1752 Bill for Widening, Amending, & Repairing Road from Combebridge 29 That same Way and Road should, at all times..be repaired and repairable by the publick Statute-labour. 1800 Local Act 39 & 40 Geo. III c. xxxii An Act for levying a Conversion Money in lieu of the Statute Labour [on roads]. 1845 W. Pagan Road Reform iii. 208 There is an excellent statute labour road diverging at Leslie. 1895 W. Elkington Five Years in Canada vi. 52 Every person owning property is required to put in a certain amount of work every year on Government roads or fireguards; it is called Statute Labour. 1968 E. S. Russenholt Heart of Continent iv. xii. 223 The Council of Assiniboia for 1901..abolishes statute labor, that time-honored method of doing road-work. 2008 Orillia (Ont.) Packet & Times (Nexis) 26 June b3 It was quite usual to see farmer acquaintances working on the rural roads, performing their statute labour. < as lemmas |
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