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In general, peasants were serfs, who were tied to the land of a manor. This meant that they had a right to live on the manor, they had a right to farm fields on the manor, and they had a right to be protected in times of trouble or famine. With these rights, there were obligations to pay rent in the form of labor, a part of the crop, or money. While these rights might seem unimportant to a modern person, what they boiled down to was, in modern terms, a right to a home, a job, and protection.

The peasants had other rights under the laws. These rights varied quite a lot from one place to another. These laws were fairly predictable, and they included a peasant's right to own personal property, some sort of right to due process, and so on, but the trouble is they were not enumerated in lists of rights, and they could be arbitrarily altered by monarchs and others of power, so it is not easy to generalize on them except to say they were hopefully things that made some sense.

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