bookright
nounEtymology Calque of Old English bōcriht; equivalent to book + right.
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Historical The right of a will or charter
- The control over land which bookright gave was vested in a preeminent building.1962, John Francis McGovern, A reconsideration of two Anglo-Saxon land tenure terms:
- However, they had one thing in common: in one way or another they all held rights in land that were derived from bookright.2015, David Roffe, Decoding Domesday, page 179: