freehold
[free-hohld]Law.
- an estate in land, inherited or held for life.
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- a form of tenure by which an estate is held in fee simple, fee tail, or for life.
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- pertaining to, of the nature of, or held by freehold.
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Origin of freehold
Freehold
[free-hohld]
- a town in E New Jersey: battle of Monmouth courthouse 1778.
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Formerly Monmouth.
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Contemporary Examples of freehold
We would do well to remember he doesn't possess the freehold.
Historical Examples of freehold
His right to the land, in fact, was not freehold, but tenure by villein socage.
The Philippine IslandsJohn Foreman
Such was the issue of the battle of Freehold, or of Monmouth, as the Americans call it.
The landholder in Virginia became then in effect a freehold tenant of the King.
Mother EarthW. Stitt Robinson, Jr.
I suppose you wouldn't know whether the land about there was freehold?
The Forsyte Saga, CompleteJohn Galsworthy
The squire greatly coveted the freehold of Queen Anne's Farm.
Rhoda Fleming, CompleteGeorge Meredith
freehold
- tenure by which land is held in fee simple, fee tail, or for life
- an estate held by such tenure
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- relating to or having the nature of freehold
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Word Origin and History for freehold
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