Definition of Bovates. Meaning of Bovates. Synonyms of Bovates

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Definition of Bovates

Bovate
Bovate Bo"vate, n. [LL. bovata, fr. bos, bovis, ox.] (O.Eng.Law.) An oxgang, or as much land as an ox can plow in a year; an ancient measure of land, of indefinite quantity, but usually estimated at fifteen acres.

Meaning of Bovates from wikipedia

- or bovates, and was a quarter of a hide, the hide and the carucate being effectively synonymous. A peasant occupying or working an oxgang or bovate might...
- the township of Pwllgwyngyll, as it was then known, held a total of 9 bovates of land from the Bishop of Bangor under the feudal system. A church was...
- considerable local variation similar to the variation in carucates, virgates, bovates, nooks, and farundels. These may have been multiples of the customary acre...
- folio 36. In the middle section Ralph de Frescheville quitclaims two bovates of land to Eleanor, daughter of Geoffrey Chamberlain, for three marks in...
- that in the 6th year of the reign of the King Philip Marc bought nine bovates of lands at Keyworth in Nottinghamshire which he gave with his body to...
- used in the northern Danelaw, known as a carucate, consisting of eight bovates, and Kent used a system based on a "sulung", consisting of four yokes,...
- variable. The Danelaw carucates were subdivided into eighths: oxgangs or bovates based on the area a yoked pair of oxen could till in a year. In the rest...
- and abolished the pennyweight (from 31 January 1969). Hide four to eight bovates. A unit of yield, rather than area, it measured the amount of land able...
- fourth share"). The Danelaw equivalent of a virgate was two oxgangs or ‘bovates’. These were considered to represent the amount of land that could be worked...
- greeting. Know that I hold from you by your favour 16 carucates of land and 2 bovates [about 2,000 acres] by the service of 10 knights. In these 16 carucates...