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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
freehold
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 to land.
▪ It would reject any redistribution of white-owned land, but would allow blacks to buy freehold land from whites.
▪ Depreciation is calculated to write off the cost or valuation of tangible assets other than freehold land over their estimated useful lives.
property
▪ Again, a Rule 72 Transfer is equally applicable as between a leasehold or freehold property.
▪ Under the first, a sale agreement, the Prudential agreed to acquire a freehold property.
■ VERB
buy
▪ Specifically, they probably decided to buy the freehold.
▪ And now private tenants in flats can get together to buy the freehold from their landlord too.
▪ It would reject any redistribution of white-owned land, but would allow blacks to buy freehold land from whites.
▪ A £3m loan was taken out during the year to buy the freehold of the Lancaster hotel in Paris.
▪ Leaseholders of higher rated houses will also be given the right to buy the freehold of their property.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ He continued to serve the Corbetts, for example, as manorial steward, after he had inherited the Newton freehold.
▪ His settlement he regarded as his birthright or his freehold.
▪ I am advised that we can purchase the freehold of this property for £40,000.
▪ Mr. Nathan retained the freehold of the remainder of No. 263-265.
▪ On 18 October 1989, the Prudential entered into two agreements with the developers of a freehold site.
▪ The 12 cousins then decided that Violet should have £5,000, the testator's chattels and the freehold of the bungalow.
▪ The deferral is indefinite if reinvestment is in non-depreciating assets such as freehold land and buildings.
▪ Under the first, a sale agreement, the Prudential agreed to acquire a freehold property.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Freehold

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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
freehold

"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).

Wiktionary
freehold

n. The tenure of property held in fee simple for life.

WordNet
freehold
  1. n. an estate held in fee simple or for life

  2. tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life

Gazetteer
Freehold, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey
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 Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
Location: 40.260143 N, 74.275428 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 07728
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Freehold (novel)

Freehold is a Prometheus Award nominated science fiction novel written by Michael Z. Williamson, published in 2004 by Baen Books. The Freehold series is continued in The Weapon, which begins prior to Freehold and ends approximately two years afterwards.

Freehold (law)

In England and Wales and Scotland, a freehold is the ownership of real property, or land, and all immovable structures attached to such land, as opposed to a leasehold in which the property reverts to the owner of the land after the lease period has expired. Immovable property includes land and all that naturally goes with it, such as buildings, trees or underground resources, but not such things as vehicles or livestock.

For an estate to be a freehold it must possess two qualities: immobility (property must be land or some interest issuing out of or annexed to land), and ownership of it must be of an indeterminate duration. If the time of ownership can be fixed and determined, it cannot be a freehold.

Before the Law of Property Act 1925, a freehold estate transferable to the owner's " heirs and assigns" (that is, successors by inheritance, or purchase [including gift], respectively), was a fee simple estate. When transfer, by inheritance or otherwise, was limited to lineal descendants ("heirs of the body" or "heirs of the blood") of the first person to whom the estate was given, it was a fee tail estate. There were also freehold estates not of inheritance, such as an estate for life.

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.