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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

In English law

Land, also called charter land, which was held by deed under certain rents and fee services, and differed in nothing from free socage land.

2 Bl. Comm. 90. See 2 Spelman, English Works, 233, tit. "Of Ancient Deeds and Charters;" "Boc. Land."