The pillary was used for punishments of petty crimes. Under the system of serfdom, such crimes were under the jurisdiction of courts leet, which provided trials by a jury of freemen, who were often peasants themselves. A typical crime would be a violation of a pledge, misuse of property, misconduct. The legal codes of the times were rather flexible, particularly for crimes that were of little interest to a monarch.
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The homonym for "serf" is "surf."
The floor of a serf's house usually had a hearth on it. The smoke from the hearth went up through a hole in the roof or out through holes under the peaks of the roof.
Your question is not entirely correct in its premise; a serf is not a slave and does not have an owner. A serf is a subject of a land owner whom the serf would address as lord.
In a feudal system, a serf would remain a serf no matter how hard they were to work.
Saint Serf died in 583.
Saint Serf was born in 500.
A pillory is a device used to punish and humiliate people publicly. It is recognizable by the three holes in a wooden board to insert the head and hands.
Riddle answer: a serf board.
The noble executed the serf.
The plural of the word "serf" is "serfs."
Peasant/serf