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folc-riht

  • noun [ neuter ]
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folc-riht, -ryht, es; n.
Folkright, common law, public right, the understood compact by which every freeman enjoys his rights as a freeman; publícum jus, commūne = τὸ κοινόν
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  • Arǽre up Godes riht; and heonanforþ lǽte manna gehwylcne, ge earmne ge eádigne, folcrihtes wyrðe, and him man rihte dómas déme

    let God's right be exalted; and henceforth let every man, both poor and rich, be worthy of folk-right, and let a man have right dooms judged to him,

    • L. C. S. 1
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    • Th. i. 376, 10: L. Ed. 11
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    • Th. i. 164, 20: L. Edg. ii. 1
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    • Th. i. 266, 4: L. Eth. vi. 8
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    • Th. i. 316, 28.
  • Hit he becwæþ mid fullan folcrihte

    he bequeathed it with full folk-right,

    • L. O. 13
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    • Th. i. 184, 1: 2
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    • Th. i. 178, 13.
  • To folcryhte

    to folk-right,

    • L. Ath. i. 2
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    • Th. i. 200, 7: i. 8
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    • Th. i. 204, 7: i. 23
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    • Th. i. 212, 1.
  • He him forgeaf wícstede wéligne, folcrihta gehwylc, swá his fæder áhte

    he had given him the wealthy dwelling place, every public right, as his father had possessed,

    • Beo. Th. 5209
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    • B. 2608.
  • Gesealde wǽpna geweald ofercom mid ðý feónda folcriht

    he gave him power of weapons with which he overcame the folkright [liberty] of enemies,

    • Cd. 143
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    • Th. 179, 1
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    • Exod. 22.
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v.  folc-geriht leód-riht.
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