praedial

Of or pertaining to land or its products.

Coming from or from the occupation of land.

Attached to the land (of slavery etc.); having to work on the land or an estate; deriving from the land.

Nothing, for instance, can be more disgraceful to human nature than the state of prædial slavery, or serfs attached to the glebe, when Malabar was under the dominion of the "mild Hindu."

After the Black Death many villeins, viewing enviously the high wages earned by those no longer bound to render predial services, began to think that the conditions in which they were placed were no longer generally fair.

A slave bound to work on the land or an estate.