Folc-Land
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
In Saxon law, J.and of tiie folk or people. Land belonging to the people or the public. Folc-land was the property of the community. It might be occupied in common, or possessed in severalty; and, in the latter case, it was probably parceled out to individuals in the fole-gemote or court of the district, and the grant sanctioned by ad in perpetuity; and therefore, on the expiration of the term for which it had been granted, it reverted to the community, and was again distributed by the same authority. It was subject ic many burdens and exactions from which boe-land was exempt.
Wharton.