Legal Dictionary of Pakistan

boon day

(usu. pl.) Hist. One of several days in the year when copyhold tenants were obliged to perform base services for the lord (such as reaping corn) without pay. - Also termed due day."Charter-land is such as a man holds by charter, that is, by evidence in writing, which otherwise is called freehold .... [T]his land was held with more easy and commodious conditions, than folkland and copy-hold land held without writing; . . . it is a free and absolute inheritance; whereas land without writing is charged with payment and bondage; so that for the most part noblemen and persons of quality possess the former, and rustics the other. The first we call freehold and by charter: the other, land at the will of the lord." Termes de la Ley 80 (1st. Am. ed. 1812). "Prior to the Conquest, property in land was divided into bocland, folcland, and laenland. The exact nature of these rights has been disputed, but probably bocland was held by owners of high station claiming under a charte