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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.


     [1913 Webster]

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  BOOK-LAND, English law. Land, also called charter-land, which was held by 
  deed under certain rents and fee services, and differed in nothing from free 
  socage land. 2 Bl. Com. 90. See 2 Spelman's English Works, 233, tit. Of 
  Ancient Deeds and Charters. 
  
  

















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