bookland

CIDE DICTIONARY

booklandn. [AS. b; b book + land land.].
     Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

bookland, n. hist. an area of common land granted by charter to a private owner.


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