Land held by charter; freehold land. (In OE. bócland, BOOKLAND.)
1503. Act 19 Hen. VII., c. 13. Lands and tenements … to the yearly value of xx.s. of Charter land or freehold.
1523. Fitzherb., Surv., 13 b. There maye be in one manere a lordshyp bothe charter lande and copye lande.
1641. Termes de la Ley, 54. Charter-land … which otherwise is called freehold.
1768. Blackstone, Comm., II. 90. Book-land, or charter-land.
1860. C. Innes, Scotl. in Mid. Ages, ii. 54. Bocland, or charter-land, was such as was severed by an act of government, that is, by the king, with the consent of his parliament or witan, from the public land, and so converted into an estate of perpetual inheritance.
