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allodial

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1. allodial - Noun

2. allodial - Adjective

Meaning

Pertaining to allodium; freehold; free of rent or service; held independent of a lord paramount; -- opposed to feudal; as, allodial lands; allodial system.

Anything held allodially.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Examples

Acton, p. 304. Upon her brother's death, she received all the House of Medici's allodial possessions. Source: Internet

Counts of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch (1576–1634 and 1681–1767) The County of Hohenzollern-Haigerloch was established in 1576 without allodial rights. Source: Internet

Matilda of Tuscany was said to have bequeathed all her allodial lands to the Church upon her death in 1115, but the donation was neither publicly acknowledged in Rome nor is any documentary record of the donation preserved. Source: Internet

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