Crossword-Solution: ALOD 4 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 5

Under the Merovingian régime, and especially under the Carolingians, the occupation of the land tended to assume the character of tenure; but free ownership of land continued to exist under the name of _alod_ (_alodis_), and there is even evidence for the existence of this in the form of small properties, held by free men; the capitularies contain numerous complaints and threats against the counts, who endeavoured by the abuse of their power to obtain the surrender of these properties.

ALLODIUM, al-l[=o]'di-um, _n._ freehold estate: land held in the possession of the owner without being subject to a feudal superior.--Also ALLOD, ALOD.

Primitive nobility and primitive landownership thus bore the same name." _William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, chapter 3, section 24._ See, also, ALOD, and ETHEL.

Both these are included in the more common term alod; but the former looks for its evidence in the pedigree of its owner or in the witness of the community, while the latter can produce the charter or· book by which it is created, and is called bocland.