Foiterers
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Vagrants.
FOLC LAND (Saxon). Land of the people.
Spelman.
Said by Blackstone to be land held by no assurance in writing, but to have been distributed amongst the common people at the pleasure of the lord, and resumable at his discretion. 2 Bl. Comm. 90; Cowdl. It was probably, however, land which belonged to the community, and which, being parcelled out for a term to people of all conditions, reverted again to the commons at the expiration of the term.
I Spence, Eq. Jur. 8; Wharton.