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bóc-land

  • noun [ neuter ]
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bóc-land, -lond, es; n.
BOOK-LAND, land held by a charter or writing, free from all fief, fee, service or fines. Such was formerly held chiefly by the nobility, and denominated allodialis, which we now call freehold; ex scripto sive charta possessa terra, terra codicillaris
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  • Ðe on his bóclande cyricean hæbbe

    who on his freehold has a church,

      L. Edg. i. 2; Th. i. 262, 11: L. Ed. 2; Th. i. 160, 14.
  • Se mon bócland hæbbe

    the man has a freehold,

      L. Alf. pol. 41; Th. i. 88, 16: Bd. 2, 3; S. 504, 29: 3, 24; S. 556, 4: Cod. Dipl. 317; A. D. 871-889; Kmhl. ii. 120, 6.
  • Hæfde Rómánum to bóclande gesealde

    Romanis per testamentum tradiderat,

      Ors. 5, 4; Bos. 104, 18.
  • Bóclandes,

      Cot. 83. v. folc-land and land.
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v.  bóc-æceras.
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