allodial
or a·lo·di·al
[uh-loh-dee-uh l]
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adjective
free from the tenurial rights of a feudal overlord.
Origin of allodial
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Historical Examples of allodial
The right to lands is allodial, but is inherent in the Government.
It was not the change from allodial to feudal so much as from confusion to order.
The emperor pardoned him and permitted him to retain his allodial property on condition of his leaving Germany for three years.
Secret Societies of the Middle AgesThomas Keightley
This might have been done by converting the holdings of the men-at-arms into allodial estates, held direct from the Crown.
Landholding In EnglandJoseph Fisher
The primitive German or allodial property is strictly reserved to the kindred.
Ancient LawSir Henry James Sumner Maine
allodial
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