landboc

English

Alternative forms

• land-boc

Etymology

From Old English landbóc < land +‎ bóc.

Noun

landboc (plural landbocs)

1. (historical) A charter or deed by which land is granted.
   • 1982, Vivian Hunter Galbraith, Kings and Chroniclers: Essays in English Medieval History, page 96:

     It used to be thought that the witnesses really did this, but in the whole splendid series of original landbocs there is not one in which the crosses are even probably autograph, while in the vast majority they are demonstrably the work of the scribe.

References

• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.