Boc Land
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Stimson (1881), Burrill (1850)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
Allodial lands held by written evidence of title. Such lands might be granted upon such terms as the owner should see fit, by greater or less estate, to take effect presently, or at a future time, or on the happening of any event. In this respect they differed essentially from feuds. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 17; 4 Kent, Coram. 441. BOC ERAS (Saxon). A scribe, notary, or chancellor among the Saxons. Crabb, Hist. Eng. Law, 28; Barr. Obs. St. 404, note (1).
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Alodial lands held by written evidence of title. Such lands might be granted upon such terms as the owner should see fit, by greater or less estate, to take effect presently, or at a future time, or on the happening of any event. In this respect they differed essentially from feuds. 1 Washb. 5th ed. R. P. *17; 4 Kent 441. But see Alod.
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
In Saxon law, land held by free socage. Pole-land was held by evidence of title, and more resembled
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
Sax. ' [quasi book-land; L. Lat. terra libraria or hoereditaria,'] In Saxon law. Land held and conveyed by writing, boc, deed or charter; deed land, or charter land, so called to distinguish it from folc land, which was held without writing. Spelman. Cowell. 1 Beeves' Hist. Eng, Law, 6. 4 Kent's Com. 441, 442. Land severed from the folc land, and converted into an estate of perpetual inheritance. According to Sir W. Blackstone, it was land held by deed under certain rents and services, and in effect differed nothing from the free socage lands. 2 Bl. Com, 90. And Spelman, in explaining the epithet Jiigreditaria, observes that it could neither be given away nor sold, but was to be kf t strictly to the heirs, {nee dari licuit nee vendi, sed haeredibus relinquenda erat) Later researches, however, have established the fact that boc land was in its nature allodial, and that the owner of it, unless fettered by some restriction imposed by those under whom he claimed, had the absolute power of alienation and disposition by gift and sale, and by will. Somner, Gavelk. 88, 89. Allen's Royal Prerog, 139, ei passim. 1 Spencers Chancery, 20, 21. See I'olcland,