Folkland Definition

Folkland Sentence Examples

• But the privileged class alone are eligible to the greatest offices of the state; they have in their hands the exclusive control of the national religion; they have the exclusive enjoyment of the common land of the state - in Teutonic phrase, the folkland.

• Evidently folkland was not free from the payment of gafal (land tax) and providing quarters for the king's men.

• In ealdorman Alfred's will the testator disposes freely of his bookland estates in favour of his sons and his daughter, but to a son who is not considered as rightful offspring five hides of folkland are left, provided the king consents.

• It is probable that folkland is meant in two or three cases when Latin documents speak of terra rei publicae jure possessa.

• Another theory was started by Professor Vinogradoff in an article on folkland in the English Hist.