This burden meant hard obligations, among other things to replace any loss with the peasant's personal patrimony. This custom was banned by King Henry IV of Castile. The privilege of the corral: allowed the feudal lord to seize birds, calves and all type of cattle. Without milk: if the wife of the feudal lord had a child and could not breastfeed him, the feudal lords selected peasant women who had recently had a child and forced them to go to the castle to breastfeed their children. Abolition The abolition of the evil or bad customs took a long time and this could primarily be attributed to the way that it formed part of the identity of the serfs, serving as an essential element in the definition of their servile bond and legal status as subordinate to the lords. Before the series of peasant revolts that stemmed from the ius malectrandi, there were already attempts on the part of the royal courts to eliminate this system of servitude. For instance, Maria de Luna, queen of Aragon-Catalonia began raising the issue some time in the fifteenth century. She appealed to Pope Benedict XIII, her kinsman, citing the example of Christ (ad exemplum Crucifixi) who freed people from their bondage. King John I was also against the system and planned to procure its abolition shortly before his death in 1395. The evil customs became one of the causes of the Catalan Civil War, which took place between the years 1460 and 1486, the year in which they were abolished by king Ferdinand II of Aragon. He issued the Sentencia Arbitral de Guadalupe, which scrapped the evil customs with a previous payment of 60 salaries per farm, and abolished the right to mistreat and many other minor landed abuses. The peasants maintained the useful domain of the farms, but they had to pay homage to the feudal lord and pay the feudal rights. References Crown of Aragon Feudalism in Europe