villainage vs legal status

villainage and legal status both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
villainage	Yes	No	No	No
legal status	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, legal status is a hypernym of villainage; that is, legal status is a word with a broader meaning than villainage:

villainage: the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf
legal status: a status defined by law

Other hypernyms of villainage include servitude.

villainage (noun)	legal status (noun)
the legal status or condition of servitude of a villein or feudal serf	a status defined by law