Hypertext Webster Gateway: "bookland"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Bookland \Book"land`\, Bockland \Bock"land`\, n. [AS. b?cland;
b?c book + land land.] (O. Eng. Law)
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.
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