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BOCLAND, BOCKLAND

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 108 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOCLAND, BOCKLAND or BOOKLAND (from A.S. boc, See also:book), an See also:original mode of See also:tenure of See also:land, also called See also:charter-land or See also:deed-land. Bocland was folk-land granted to individuals in private ownership by a document (charter or book) in See also:writing, with the signatures of the See also:king and witenagemot; at first it was rarely, if ever, held by laymen, except for religious purposes. Bocland to a certain extent resembled full ownership in the See also:modern sense, in that the owner could See also:grant it in his lifetime, in the same manner as he had received it, by boc or book, and also dispose of it by will.

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