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Beneficium was the legal name of an estate held by a feudal tenure. See Spelman's Glossary. Waynage was a villein's plough-tackle and carts.
We also know that, by Magna Carta, amercements, or fines, could not be imposed to the ruin of the criminal; that, in the case of a freeman, his contenement, or means of subsisting in the condition of a freeman, must be saved to him; that, in the case of a merchant, his merchandise must be spared; and in the case of a villein, his waynage, or plough-tackle and carts.
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