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The English surname Bond is a status name for a peasant farmer. From the Middle English word bonde, and the Old Norse word bóndi. The status of the peasant farmer fluctuated considerably during the Middle Ages. Among Germanic peoples, the term came to signify a farmer bound by loyalty to a lord. This developed the sense of a free landholder as opposed to a serf. In England after the Norman Conquest the word sank in status and became associated with the notion of bound servitude.

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