base estate

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base estate - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  BASE ESTATE, English law. The estate which base tenants had in their lands. 
  Base tenants were a degree above villeins, the latter being compelled to 
  perform all the commands of their lords; the former did not hold their lands 
  by the performance of such commands. See Kitch. 41.