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countable and uncountable, plural folklands
(law, historical, UK) Land held in villeinage, being distributed among the folk, or people, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and taken back at his discretion. quotations
The folkland, the national fund, was administered and conveyed conjointly by the king and the witan.
1889, Hannis Taylor, The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution