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bold-getæl

  • noun [ neuter ]
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bold-getæl, es; n. [bold a house, getæl a number, tribe, register]
A dwelling-place, mansion, habitation, house; domicilium, mansio, vicus, domus
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  • Gif mon wille of boldgetale [boldgetæle MS. B.] in óðer boldgetæl hláford sécan, dó ðæt mid ðæs ealdormonnes gewitnesse ðe he ǽr in his scíre folgode if a man from one dwelling-place wish to seek a lord in another dwelling-place, let him do it with the knowledge of the alderman, whom he before followed in his shire, L. Alf. pol. 37; Th. i. 86, 2; that is, If a person who had commended himself, wished to take his name off the manor-roll

    of one lord, etc.

    Thorpe's
      Laws, vol. i. p. 86, note a.
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  • bold-getæl, n.