Balázs György (szerk.): The abolition of serfdom and its impact on rural culture, Guide to the Exhibition Commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the Revolution and War if Independence of 1848-49 (Budapest-Szentendre, Museum of Hungarian Agriculture-Hungarian Open-Air Museum, 1998.)

Saint Georges Day (24 April). Communities without vineyards were allowed to sell wine bought elsewhere until Christmas. During the rest of the year only the landlord had the right to sell wine. The Patent regulated labour service and obligations in kind and money as well. Peasants with a whole tenure were obliged to work one day a week free for the landlord with their carts and draught animals (yoke socage) or two days without (manual socage). Peasants had to undertake longdistance carting once a year per four whole tenures in a village, which meant that they had to cart whatever the landlord wanted at a desired distance. However, the serfs had the right to hire someone else to do labour service for them. The amount of labour service to be done by serfs with three quarters, half, one third, or one eighth of a tenure was proportionately smaller. Cotters having a cottage owed 18 days of manual labour service a year, and those without a cottage owed only 12. Later labour service was commuted to the payment of a certain sum to the landlord. The sum was a matter of agreement between the parties. Serfs paid the ninth part of all their field produce, grain, hemp, flax, wine (occasionally a hill tax), and progeny. This obligation could also be commuted to the payment of money. Furthermore, two chickens, two capons, twelve eggs, 0.85 litre (about one fifth of a gallon) of butter had to be given to the landlord as „presents" each year, as well as a calf or one forint and thirty krajcár (pence) per thirty tenures. As a rent for his building site (irrespective of the size of the plot) every serf or cotter with a cottage had to pay a Whipping bench 7