odalborn en · ADJ
Etymology
From odal + born.
Meanings
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(historical, not-comparable) Inheriting land by odal.
The odalborn man inherits land from his grandfather’s grandfather. The son of an odalman who claims odal as odal by inheritance counts four or five forefathers who had the land before him.
1902, Frederic Seebohm, Tribal Custom in Anglo-Saxon Law, Longmans, Green and Co., page 271: