bookright
English
Alternative forms
- book-right
Etymology 1
From Old English bōcriht, equivalent to book + right.
Noun
bookright (plural bookrights)
- (historical) The right of a will or charter
- 1962, John Francis McGovern, A reconsideration of two Anglo-Saxon land tenure terms:
- The control over land which bookright gave was vested in a preeminent building.
- 2015, David Roffe, Decoding Domesday, page 179:
- However, they had one thing in common: in one way or another they all held rights in land that were derived from bookright.
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Etymology 2
From book + right.
Noun
bookright (plural bookrights)
- Alternative form of book-right (“the right to a book or publication”)
- 1903, William Henry Hills, Robert Luce, The Writer: A Monthly Magazine for Literary Workers:
- 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.
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