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The Anglo-Saxon charter can take many forms: it can be a lease (often presented as a chirograph), a will, an agreement, a writ or, most commonly, a grant of land. [1] Our picture is skewed towards those that regard land, particularly in the earlier period.
The first section, traditionally titled the Liber Wigorniensis, is a collection of Anglo-Saxon charters and other land records, most of which are organized geographically. The second section, Hemming's Cartulary proper, combines charters and other land records with a narrative of deprivation of property owned by the church of Worcester.
Cartularium Saxonicum is a three-volume collection of Anglo-Saxon charters published from 1885 to 1893 [2] by Walter de Gray Birch (1842–1924), then working in the Department of Manuscripts at the British Library. The most recent edition was released on May 24, 2012, by Cambridge University Press. [3]
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Charter of Massachusetts Bay, 1742. A charter is a document that gives colonies the legal rights to exist. Charters can bestow certain rights on a town, city, university, or other institution. Colonial charters were approved when the king gave a grant of exclusive powers for the governance of land to proprietors or a settlement company.
The New Minster Charter is an Anglo-Saxon illuminated manuscript that was likely composed by Bishop Æthelwold [2] and presented to the New Minster in Winchester by King Edgar in the year 966 AD to commemorate the Benedictine Reform. [3] [4] It is now part of the British Library's collection.
Bookland (Old English: bÅcland) was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter. Land held without a charter was known as folkland (Old English: folcland). [1] The distinction in meaning between these terms is a consequence of Anglo-Saxon land law. The concept of bookland arose in the seventh ...
Saxon customary law, or Landrecht, was the law of free people including the peasant sokemanry. It contains important rules and regulations concerning property rights, inheritance, marriage, the delivery of goods, and certain torts (e.g. trespass, nuisance). It also treats criminal law and the composition of courts.