单词 | bookland |
释义 | booklandn. historical in later use. Land granted or held in hereditary possession by charter; (also more generally, in historical use) any land not forming part of the folkland or common land. Cf. book n. 1d, folkland n.Chiefly with reference to land tenure in Anglo-Saxon England. Tenure as bookland was apparently originally designed to be transferable to the Church (cf. quot. eOE2). Bookland was owned outright by an individual; within the limits stipulated in the charter by which it was conferred, it was freed from secular dues and could be freely bequeathed to others. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > freehold land or property booklandeOE freeholdinga1325 freehold1435 udal land?1502 charter-land1503 eOE (Kentish) Will of Ealdorman Ælfred (Sawyer 1508) in F. E. Harmer Sel. Eng. Hist. Docs. 9th & 10th Cent. (1914) 14 Gif se cyning him geunnan wille þęs folclondes to ðęm boclonde, þonne hębbe he & bruce. eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iii. xviii. 236 He þa gehet..twelf boclanda æhte [L. xii possessiones praediorum] þæt he Gode geaf mynster on to timbrenne. OE Laws of Edgar (Nero A.i) ii. ii. 196 Gyf hwa þonne ðegna sy, ðe on his boclande cyrican habbe, þe legerstow on sy, gesylle he þane þriddan dæl his agenre teoðunge into his cyrican. lOE Laws: Instituta Cnuti (Rochester) i. xi. 295 In alodio (id est bocland) [OE Laws of Cnut: Nero A.i on his boclande]. lOE Quadripartitus (Domitian) in F. Liebermann Gesetze der Angelsachsen (1903) I. 317 Et si terram testamentalem habeat (quę Anglice dicitur bocland [c1310 Claud. boclond]). 1612 S. Daniel First Pt. Hist. Eng. ii. 131 Our Auncestors had onely two kinde of tenures, Boke-land, and Folkland. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 42 Bockland, in the Saxons time..was by that name distinguished from Folkland. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 90 Book-land, or charter-land. 1819 Edinb. Rev. 32 10 Bok-land was held by the oaths of seven recognitors. 1860 C. Innes Scotl. in Middle Ages ii. 54 Bocland or Charterland was such as was severed by an act of the government, that is, by the King with the consent of his parliament, from the public land. 1876 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest V. xxiv. 368 The man who received a grant of book~land on such terms as made it practically as much his own as a primitive eðel. 1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. iv. 171 The line of division between the two basic tenures of Anglo-Saxon England, bookland and folkland, makes sharp division between that which can be alienated and that which cannot. 1999 Oxoniensia 63 27 First, it is evident from the development of bookland in the 10th century that rapid inroads were being made, on a wide scale, into these earlier large estates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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