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Robotpatent, (German: “Forced-Labour Patent”), law governing compulsory labour, performed by peasants for their lord in the Austrian domains. Enactments from earlier times existed throughout the Austrian domains, such as a Hungarian one that was issued as a penalty in 1514 following an abortive peasant revolt. This decreed that the peasants should work 52 days a year of haulage (involving draught animals) for the landowner. Elsewhere, conditions were less harsh; and, in such regions as the Tirol, Robot, or forced labour, hardly existed. During 1771–78, Empress Maria Theresa introduced a series of patents regulating and restricting peasant labour, though only in ...(100 of 213 words)

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