bookright

plural bookrights · alternative book-right

1. historicalThe right of a will or charter

   The control over land which bookright gave was vested in a preeminent building.

   1962, John Francis McGovern, A reconsideration of two Anglo-Saxon land tenure terms

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   However, they had one thing in common: in one way or another they all held rights in land that were derived from bookright.

   2015, David Roffe, Decoding Domesday, page 179

plural bookrights · alternative book-right

1. alternativeAlternative form of book-right (“the right to a book or publication”).

   In 1892 appeared my first serial in the Boys' Own Paper, of London, for which I received $190, and $125 more at a later date for the bookrights.

   1903, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers