Crossword-Solution: FOLKLAND
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| Folkland | n. | Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at his discretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it was opposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. |
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| former type of land tenure | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
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Sentences with FOLKLAND (5)
The nation had its _folkland_, its _ager publicus_, the property of no one man but of the whole state.
The King might have his private estate, to be dealt with at his own pleasure, but of the _folkland_, the land of the nation, he was only the chief administrator, bound to act by the advice of his Witan.
But in this case more than in others, the advice of the Witan could not fail to become formal; the _folkland_, ever growing through confiscations, ever lessening through grants, gradually came to be looked on as the land of the King, to be dealt with as he thought good.
This excess was known as Folkland (the People's land,[3] and might be used by all alike for pasturing cattle or cutting wood.
With the consent of the Witan, the King might grant portions of this Folkland as a reward for services done to himself or to the community.