Thainland
Defined in 2 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Bouvier (1914)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
or THANELAND.
In old English law. The land which was granted hy the Saxon kings to their thains or thanes was so called. Crabb, Com. Law, 10.
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
In Old English Law. The land which was granted by the Saxon kings to their timing or thanes was so called. THALWEG (German). The term thalweg is commonly used by writers on international law, in the definition of water boundaries between states, meaning the middle or deepest or most navigable channel, and while often styled “fairway” or “midway” or “main channel,” the word has been taken over into various languages and the doctrine of the thalweg is often applicable in respect of water boundaries to sounds, bays, straits, gulfs, estuaries and other arms of the sea, and also channel therein; Louisiana v. Mississippi, 202 U. S. 1, 26 Sup. Ct. 408, 571, 50 lx Ed. 918.