“Laenlands were loaned lands, that is, lands granted for a period, either the life of the grantee or some longer time such as three lives. In return the grantees performed services, usually of an agricultural nature, or made payments in kind to their landlords. Laenlands, like boclands, were usually held under a written instrument, and they are therefore sometimes included in the boclands. But strictly, laenland and bocland differed. Bocland, we may say, was held directly as a result of a charter from the king, whereas laenland was temporarily held by grant from some great landlord.” W.J.V. Windeyer, Lectures on Legal History 28 (2d ed. 1949).
loanland
loanland. Hist. A tenancy involving the loan of land by one person to another. — Also spelled laenland. Cf. BOOKLAND; FOLKLAND.
