Hist. [OE. landbóc, f. land LAND sb. + bóc BOOK sb.] A charter or deed by which land is granted.

1

961.  in Earle, Land Charters (1888), 199. Þis is þæra feower hyda land boc æt wiþiʓlea þe eadgar cing hæfð ʓebocod cenulfe on ece yrfe.

2

a. 1000.  Voc., in Wr.-Wülcker, 225/2. Donatio, landbec.

3

a. 1207.  Gervase (of Canterbury), Gesta Regum, Wks. (Rolls), II. 59. Has scedulas tunc temporis ‘land-bokes,’ id est libros terrarum, Angli vocabant.

4

1676.  Coles, Landboc, a Deed whereby lands are holden.

5

1839.  Keightley, Hist. Eng., I. 78. Landbocs or grants and charters were there [i.e., in the Hundred mote] read out and published.

6