Obs. exc. Hist. [OE. folcriht f. folc FOLK + riht RIGHT.] ‘Common law, public right, the understood compact by which every freeman enjoys his rights as a freeman’ (Bosw.).
a. 1000. Laws Cnut, § 1. Heonan-forð læte manna ȝehwylcne, ȝe earmne ȝe eadiȝne, folc-rihtes wyrðe.
1849. Kemble, Saxons, II. vi. 205. New laws which were to be added to the existing folcriht.
[1876. Whitby Gloss., Fooakreeght, public right.]
