folkland

Edward's day the notion of folkland, as the possession of the nation and not of the King, could have been only a survival, and in

William the Conqueror Edward Augustus Freeman 1857

The outsiders, the men who lived with the clan but were not of the clan, were no part of the folk, and had no share in the folkland.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India—Volume I (of IV) Robert Vane Russell 1894

Germany, the idea of a common land or folkland -- a territory belonging to the whole community, and upon which new communities might be organized by a process analogous to what physiologists call cell-multiplication -- had been perfectly familiar to everybody.

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

All the money coming from sales of the western folkland was to be applied to reducing and wiping out the principal of the public debt.

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

It was simply the thirteen states, through their delegates in Congress, dealing with the unoccupied national domain as if it were the common land or folkland of a stupendous township.

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

It witnessed the creation of a national territory beyond the Alleghanies, -- an enormous folkland in which all the thirteen old states had a common interest, and upon which new and derivative communities were already beginning to organize themselves.

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

Townships budded from village or parish folkland in Maryland and Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, just as they had done in England before the time of Alfred.

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

Theory of folkland upon which the ordinance was based 207

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

[Sidenote: Theory of folkland upon which the ordinance was based.] "I doubt," says Daniel Webster, "whether one single law of any law-giver, ancient or modern, has produced effects of more distinct, marked, and lasting character than the Ordinance of 1787."

The Critical Period of American History John Fiske 1871

In time, the king and the Witenagemot granted charters in other cases, and the new 'bookland' to a great extent superseded the old 'folkland,' accompanied by a grant of the right of holding special courts.

A Student's History of England, v. 1 (of 3) From the earliest times to the Death of King Edward VII Samuel Rawson Gardiner 1865