Landboc
Defined in 5 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Bouvier (1914), Black's (1910), Kinney (1893), Black's (1891)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A charter or deed whereby lands or tenements were given under early English law. Cowell. See Bocland. Occasionally it is said a bishop or abbot in support of claims of the highest jurisdictional powers “would rely on the vague large words of some Anglo-Saxon land book. But to do this was to make a false move; the king’s lawyers were not astute palseographers or diplomatists, but any charter couched in terms sufficiently loose to pass for one moment as belonging to the age before the conquest could be met by the doctrine that the king was not to be deprived of his rights by ‘obscure and general words.’ ” 1 Poll. & Maltl. 571. See 3 Holdsw. Hist. B. L. 191.
Black's Law Dictionary
Henry Campbell Black, M.A. · 1910
A Law Dictionary and Glossary
George C. Kinney · 1893
sax.
In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Saxon law. A charter or deed by which lands or tenements were given or held. Spelman; Cowell; 1 Reeve, Eng. Law, 10,