Meaning of FREEHOLD
| Pronunciation: | | 'free`howld
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- [n] tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
- [n] an estate held in fee simple or for life
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| | See Also: | | acres, demesne, estate, land, land tenure, landed estate, tenure | |
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| | Definition: | | Freehold
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Free"hold`\, n. (LAw)
An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or
fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is
held. --Kent. Burrill.
{To abate into a freehold}. See under {Abate}.
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| | Definition: | | private ownership of property. |
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| | Related Terms: | | acres, adverse possession, alluvion, alluvium, alod, alodium, arable land, burgage, claim, clay, clod, colony, crust, de facto, de jure, dead hand, dependency, derivative title, dirt, dry land, dust, earth, estate of freehold, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, gavelkind, glebe, grassland, ground, having title to, hold, holding, knight service, land, landholdings, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, lithosphere, mandate, marginal land, marl, mold, mortmain, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, real estate, real property, region, regolith, seisin, socage, sod, soil, squatting, subaerial deposit, sublease, subsoil, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, title, topsoil, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, woodland |
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