Landceap

LAND CHEAP (land, and Sax. ceapan, to buy). A fine payable In money or cattle, upon the alienation of land, within certain manors and liberties.

Cowell.

A method of land transfer prevailing in Britain in the ninth century. The transaction although a sale, took the form of a grant. How far the practice went back to old English roots, and to what extent it was the result of Scandinavian Influence, it is said to be impossible to tell. From the fact that the books frequently mention a symbolic investiture by sod, which has no necessary connection with the drawing up of a book, it may be gathered that the delivery of the sod was the characteristic symbol of tradition in the land ceap; 20 Harv. L. Rev. 532; See Maitland, Domesday Book and Beyond 323.