folkright

[fohk-rahyt]

noun

a law or right of the people as opposed to that of the privileged classes.

Origin of folkright

before 1000; Middle English; Old English folcriht. See folk, right

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Historical Examples of folkright

It considers folkland as landownership by folkright—at common law, as might be said in modern legal speech.
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