bockland

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bockland - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Bockland \Bock"land\, n.
     See Bookland.
     [1913 Webster]

  Bookland \Book"land`\, Bockland \Bock"land`\, n. [AS.
     b[=o]cland; b[=o]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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bockland - Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) :

  BOCKLAND, Eng. law. The name of an ancient allodial tenure, which was exempt 
  from feudal services. Bac. Ab. Gavelkind, A Spelman's English Works, vol. 2, 
  233.