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Definition of Bookland
1. n. 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.
Definition of Bookland
1. Noun. (context: 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. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Bookland
1. land transferred from public to private ownership [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bookland
Literary usage of Bookland
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1902)
"more common than bookland and likely to be confused with (3) it. bookland, properly
so called, was a very rare subject of land- grant; it only appears in ..."
2. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"Brunner's researches have made it more than ever plain the so-called ethel cannot
have disappeared by the year 9CK become gradually merged in bookland by ..."
3. Scrapbook (1906)
"THE GIANT AND PYGMY OF bookland. THE extremes of bookland which meet in the
British Museum are each remarkable products of the art of book-making. ..."
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