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Webster's 1913 Dictionary

BOOKLAND; BOCKLAND

Book "land `, Bock "land `, n. Etym: [AS. b; b book + land land. ] (O.Eng. Law )

Defn: Charter land held by deed under certain rents and free services, which differed in nothing from free socage lands. This species of tenure has given rise to the modern freeholds.

New American Oxford Dictionary

bookland

book |land |ˈbʊkland | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. historical an area of common land granted by charter to a private owner before the Norman conquest. ORIGIN Old English, from bóc ‘charter ’ + land. The term was applied eventually to all land that was not folcland, i.e. land subject to traditional communal obligations.

Oxford Dictionary

bookland

book |land |ˈbʊkland | ▶noun [ mass noun ] Brit. historical an area of common land granted by charter to a private owner before the Norman conquest. ORIGIN Old English, from bóc ‘charter ’ + land. The term was applied eventually to all land that was not folcland, i.e. land subject to traditional communal obligations.