from
Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
VILLENOUS JUDGMENT, punishments. In the English law it was a judgment given
by the common law in attaint, or in cases of conspiracy.
2. Its effects were to make the object of it lose his liberam legem,
and become infamous. He forfeited his goods and chattels, and his lands
during life; and this barbarous judgment further required that his lands
should be wasted, his houses razed, his trees rooted up, and that his body
should be cast into prison. He 'could not be a juror or witness. Burr. 996,
1027; 4 Bl. Com. 136.