Land attached to or forming part of a cottage or small holding; the small plot of ground belonging to a cote or cottage.
From cote or cottage plus land, an Old English compound describing the property surrounding a small dwelling.
Cotland was a real medieval legal concept—a serf or peasant might be tied to cotland rather than owning it, making it part of the feudal system of property rights.
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