[OE. bondeland, f. bonda, BOND sb.2 + LAND.] Land held by bondage tenure; an early form of copyhold land.
[c. 1120. O. E. Chron. (Laud MS.), an. 777. Þa let he Cuðbriht ealdorma[n] x bonde-land [terram x manentium] æt Swines heafde.]
1861. Pearson, Early & Mid. Ages Eng., 200. It is probable that the freemen upon bond-land were in the first instance Britons who retained their holding on condition of paying tribute.
1882. C. Elton, Orig. Eng. Hist., 192. In some places … there are two kinds of copyhold land, the one called ‘Bond-land’ and the other ‘Soke-land.’
