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freehold
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Freehold may refer to:
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"landed estate in possession of a freeman," late 15c., later generalized to any outright ownership of land, a translation of Anglo-French fraunc tenement ; see free (adj.) + hold (n.1).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freehold \Free"hold`\, n. (Lw) 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 .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN land ▪ The deferral is indefinite if reinvestment is in non-depreciating assets such as freehold land and buildings. ▪ The operation of rental and freehold land markets is compared to inheritance as a means of access ...
Gazetteer
Word definitions in Gazetteer
Population (2000): 10976 Housing Units (2000): 3821 Land area (2000): 1.995230 sq. miles (5.167623 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.995230 sq. miles (5.167623 sq. km) FIPS code: 25200 Located within: New ...
Usage examples of freehold.
Memories of her as a small child, growing up fatherless in Freehold, without the grounding or kinship to the other children, always feeling that she was somehow different.
No Papist could purchase a freehold or lease for more than thirty years, or inherit from an intestate Protestant, nor from an intestate Catholic, nor dwell in Limerick or Galway, nor hold an advowson, nor buy an annuity for life.
The Freehold tubes had been joined by captured UN pieces and some undriveable but shootable armor.
The Freehold Military Forces does not leave mistakes uncorrected or abandon personnel for political reasons.
If a Freehold craft was deemed unrecoverable, it was slagged to prevent precisely this type of intel gathering.
Draper, otherwise Sir Simon de Wynton, granted a plot of land to the north-west of the Manor House to Adam de Lecke in villeinage, and later in freehold to John de Otterbourne, reserving thirteen shillings rent.
The Athenaeum is available freehold at a reasonable price with all properties and costumes, and a modest house nearby for you to live in.
There are those that believe Plenimar means to drive out the Skalan and Mycenian merchants and extend their own political influence over the northern freeholds.
Sioned had coaxed and cajoled and finally pried Master Irul loose from the vineyards at Catha Freehold this summer.
If you recall, the only health concern at Freehold System Entry is venereal and bloodborne pathogens.
Inquests of novel disseisin (a legal procedure to provide redress for those who have had their freehold unjustly taken), of mort d’ancester (a legal procedure to provide redress for those who have been denied an inheritance), and of darrein presentment (last presentation), shall not be held elsewhere than in their own county courts and that in manner following,—We, or, if we should be out of the realm, our chief justiciar, will send two justiciars through every county four times a year, who shall, along with four knights of the county chosen by the county, hold the said assize in the county court, on the day and in the place of meeting of that court.
He phoned his brother-in-law, Tom Barbuda, in Freehold, which was in the direction indicated by Dorothy, and asked him to drive with him.
His father bought him the freehold of this place where he lives and gave him an allowance that is enough to keep body and soul together.
For the next ten minutes I was obliged to wheeze over and fumble through a dozen-odd other documents, all of them patents for various monopolies and inventions – new methods of essaying gold or rigging ships – together with the title-deeds for freehold properties scattered across England, Ireland and Virginia.
The Empire had been stronger when it relied on its freeholding peasantry than now, with the provincial nobles at odds with the pen-pushers in the capital, and with the state's defenses in the hands of unreliable mercenaries like the Namdaleni—or the Romans.