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Servitude may refer to:
  • Service
    Domestic worker
    A domestic worker is someone who works within the employer's household. Domestic workers perform a variety of household services for an individual or a family, from providing care for children and elderly dependents to cleaning and household maintenance, known as housekeeping...

  • Conscription
    Conscription
    Conscription is a general term for involuntary labor demanded by an established authority. It is most often used in the specific sense of requiring citizens to serve in the armed forces...

  • Employment
    Employment
    Employment is a contract between two parties, one being the employer and the other being the employee. An employee may be defined as: "A person in the service of another under any contract of hire, express or implied, oral or written, where the employer has the power or right to control and direct...

  • Slavery
    Slavery
    Slavery is a form of forced labor in which people are considered to be the property of others. Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to receive compensation...

  • Indentured servitude
  • Involuntary servitude
    Involuntary servitude
    Involuntary servitude is a United States legal and constitutional term for a person laboring against that person's will to benefit another, under some form of coercion...

  • Penal servitude
  • Servitude (BDSM)
    Servitude (BDSM)
    In BDSM, servitude refers to performing personal tasks for their dominant partner, as part of their submissive role in a BDSM relationship.In domestic servitude roles, the submissive can receive pleasure and satisfaction from performing personal services for their dominant, such as serving as a...

  • Equitable servitude
    Equitable servitude
    An equitable servitude is a term used in the law of real property to describe a nonpossessory interest in land that operates much like a covenant running with the land. In England, when a party is forbidden from certain use, the covenant is called equitable servitude. In the U.S., both negative and...

    , a term of real estate law
  • Servitude in civil law
    Servitude in civil law
    In Canadian law a servitude is a real right opposable to third parties which can be created by law, agreement , or other legal mechanisms,According to the Civil Code of Quebec, article 1177:...