OE. and Hist. [OE. landriht (see LAND sb. and RIGHT sb.): cf. OS. landreht, OFris. landriucht, OHG. lantreht, G. landrecht.] ‘Law of the land; legal rights of natives of the country; legal obligation connected with land or estate’ (Sweet, Ags. Dict.).
Beowulf (Gr.), 2886. Londrihtes mot þære mæʓburʓe monna æʓhwylc idel hweorfan.
a. 1000. Cædmon’s Gen., 1911 (Gr.). Unc modiʓe ymb mearce sittað … ne willað rumor unc landriht heora. Ibid., Exod. 354. Landriht ʓeþah.
1872. E. W. Robertson, Hist. Ess., 236, note. In later days it was a principle of Land-right that no freeman should be amerced ‘above his wer.’
1892. Stopford A. Brooke, E. E. Lit., i. 6. He … received money and landright from the king.
