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The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

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).