ˈcharter-land
Land held by charter; freehold land. (In OE. bócland, bookland.)
| 1503 Act 19 Hen. VII, c. 13 Lands and tenements..to the yearly value of xx.s. of Charter land or freehold. 1523 Fitzherb. Surv. 13 b, There maye be in one manere a lordshyp bothe charter lande and copye lande. 1641 Termes de la Ley 54 Charter-land..which otherwise is called freehold. 1768 Blackstone Comm. II. 90 Book-land, or charter-land. 1860 C. Innes Scotl. in Mid. Ages ii. 54 Bocland or Charter-land was such as was severed by an act of government, that is, by the King with the consent of his parliament, from the public land. |