Hist. [OE. landbóc, f. land LAND sb. + bóc BOOK sb.] A charter or deed by which land is granted.
961. in Earle, Land Charters (1888), 199. Þis is þæra feower hyda land boc æt wiþiʓlea þe eadgar cing hæfð ʓebocod cenulfe on ece yrfe.
a. 1000. Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 225/2. Donatio, landbec.
a. 1207. Gervase (of Canterbury), Gesta Regum, Wks. (Rolls), II. 59. Has scedulas tunc temporis ‘land-bokes,’ id est libros terrarum, Angli vocabant.
1676. Coles, Landboc, a Deed whereby lands are holden.
1839. Keightley, Hist. Eng., I. 78. Landbocs or grants and charters were there [i.e., in the Hundred mote] read out and published.
