different between bookland vs folkland

English

Etymology

From Middle English bocland, boclond, from Old English b?cland, equivalent to book +? land.

Noun

bookland (plural booklands)

1. (Anglo-Saxon) In Anglo-Saxon society, land held by charter or written title, free from all fief, fee, service, and/or fines. Such was formerly held chiefly by the nobility and denominated freeholders.

Hypernyms

• land

See also

• allodium

English

Etymology

From Old English folcland. Equivalent to folk +? land.

Noun

folkland (countable and uncountable, plural folklands)

1. (law, historical, Britain) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion.
   • 1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution

     The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.

Related terms

• bookland

References

• folkland in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• landfolk