This excess was known as Folkland (the People's land,[3] and might be used by all alike for pasturing cattle or cutting wood.
With the consent of the Witan, the King might grant portions of this Folkland as a reward for services done to himself or to the community.
In time the King obtained the power of making these grants without having to consult the Witan, and at last the whole of the Folkland came to be regarded as the absolute property of the Crown.
The incidents recorded in the charters characterize folkland as subject to ordinary fiscal burdens and to limitations in respect of testamentary succession.
It is probable that folkland is meant in two or three cases when Latin documents speak of terra rei publicae jure possessa.
Thane Wallaf has to be relieved from fiscal exactions when his estate is converted from folkland into bookland (C.
It considers folklandas landownership by folkright--at common law, as might be said in modern legal speech.
Ealdorman Alfred's son, not being recognized as legitimate, has to claim folkland not by direct succession or devise, but by the consent of the king.
These estates remained subject to the superior ownership of the folk and of the king: they could eventually be taken back by the latter and, in any case, the heir of a holder of folkland had to be confirmed in possession by the king.
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 folklandare left, provided the king consents.
Evidently folkland was not free from the payment of gafal (land tax) and providing quarters for the king's men.
Another theory was started by Professor Vinogradoff in an article on folkland in the English Hist.
He accepts in the main Kemble's doctrines as to the Mark, the allotment of land, the opposition of folklandand book-land, and expounds them with greater fulness and better insight into the evidence.
In Saxon times the common people settled on folkland were immersed in complete slavery.
But from the nature of the case it was inevitable that the area of folkland or royal demesne must constantly be lessened as each succeeding grant increased the area of the boc-land.
Now in one sense all that belonged to the ancient demesne of the Crown was folkland and extra-manorial.
And it would appear that the kings had originally no power to alienate this folkland without the consent of the great men of their witan.
Conquered probably by Ceawlin, or soon after the year 577, the manor of Tidenham seems to have remained folkland or terra regis of the West Saxon kings, till Offa conquered it from them and gave his name to the dyke upon it.
But inasmuch as the royal demesne or folkland included an endless number of manors as well as forest, it cannot properly be said that it was necessarily extra-manorial.
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.
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.
Townships budded from village or parish folklandin Maryland and Massachusetts in the seventeenth century, just as they had done in England before the time of Alfred.
Sidenote: Theory of folkland upon which the ordinance was based.
He abode in Raumsdale, within thefolkland of the Raumsdale people, which lies between Southmere and Northmere.
King Harald gave Ulf the Marshal the rights of a feudatory and a grant of twelve marks with more than half a folkland in Throndhjem; this according to Stein Herdison in the lay of Ulf.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "folkland" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
