landboc

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English

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Old English landbōc < land +‎ bōc.

Noun

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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.

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Old English

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Etymology

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land +‎ bōc

Noun

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landbōc f

  1. a charter in which land is granted

Declension

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