FOLCLANDS, or FOLKLANDS. Copyhold lands were so called in the time of the Saxons, as charter lands were called boclands. Folkland was terra vulgi or terra popularis, the land of the common people, who had no certain estate therein, but held it under the rents and services accustomed or agreed, at the will only of their lord the thane; and it was therefore not put in writing, but accounted prædium rusticum et ignobile.