Folkland

[Sarah]

Land held in villenage, being distributed among the folk, orpeople, at the pleasure of the lord of the manor, and resumed at hisdiscretion. Not being held by any assurance in writing, it wasopposed to bookland or charter land, which was held by deed. Mozley

[Sarah]

In the fictional world of the Middle Earth created by Tolkien, it means province.

Under the Anglo-Saxon law, it means a land held under no charter, rather an ancient unwritten custom.