bookright

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Frequency: 0.00 in modern English

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The right of a will or charter

noun

Alternative form of book-right (“the right to a book or publication”).

"The control over land which bookright gave was vested in a preeminent building."
"However, they had one thing in common: in one way or another they all held rights in land that were derived from bookright."
"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."

Calque of Old English bōcriht; equivalent to book + right.

bookrights (plural) book-right (alternative)

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