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freeholding

n. property held in freehold

Usage examples of "freeholding".

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.

And no matter how many times he'd screamed out the truth, he couldn't seem to convince his captors that he'd wandered onto Asengai's remote freeholding seeking nothing more than the pelts of spotted cats.

Several other points marked remote freeholdings along the Ironheart foothills, Asengai's among them.

Plenimar stretched greedy talons westward toward Skala's borders and north to the fertile freeholdings along the Gold Road.