laenn.
/leɪn/ Anglo-Saxon Law.
An estate held as a benefice.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > land held as benefice
læn-land985
laena988
a988 in Birch Cart. Sax. III. 329 Þa gewat Eadric ær Ælfheh cwideleas & Ælfeh feng to his læne.
a1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 115/36 Precarium, landeslæn.
1845 J. Lingard Hist. & Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church (ed. 3) I. App. k. 409 National property at the disposal of the king, to be distributed by him as læns (loans) or benefices.
1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. i. 8 The person having the ‘laen’ possessing only the usufructuary enjoyment to a greater or less extent.
Compounds
læn-land n. land held as ‘læn’.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > land held as benefice
læn-land985
laena988
985 in Kemble Codex Dipl. III. 217 Fif hida ðe Oswald..bocaþ Eadrice..swa swa he hit ær hæfde to lænlande.
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 117 Laenlands, or benefices.
1874–5 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. v. 77 Either bookland or folkland could be,..under the name of lænland, held by free cultivators.
læn-right n. beneficiary right.
ΚΠ
1872 E. W. Robertson Hist. Ess. 153 In property held by Læn-right possessions, privileges and obligations devolved upon the eldest born.
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