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Charter Land

Legal definition for Indian law research

Definition

Charter-land, otherwise called bookland, property held by deed under certain rents and free-services. It in effect difers nothing from the free socage lands, and hence have arisen most of the freehold tenants, who hold of particular manors, and owe suit and servie to the same, 2 Bl. Com. 90.

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