Select all that apply. Which statements about the position of a serf are correct?
He owed the lord labour and dues out of what he produced.✓Correct answer
He was owned as property and could be sold away from the land.
He held a customary right to work a holding on the manor.✓Correct answer
He could be turned off his holding at any moment at the lord's whim.
He was tied to the manor and could not leave it without his lord's permission.✓Correct answer
Explanation
The unfree peasant's whole position was defined by the land: he came with the estate, worked for its lord and handed over dues from his crop, while custom also gave him a holding his family expected to keep and to pass on. Being sold as property is the classic confusion with slavery, and it fails precisely because the man was attached to an estate rather than owned as a possession that could be moved and sold apart from it.