freehold
Speech parts
1. freehold - Noun
2. freehold - Adjective
3. freehold - Verb
4. Freehold - Proper noun
Meaning
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.
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To have given each one of the million Negro free families a forty-acre freehold would have made a basis of real democracy in the United States that might easily have transformed the modern world.
None shall be disseised of his freehold.
The all-enclosing freehold of Content.
21. We pray that it be not lawful to the lords of any manor to purchase lands freely, (i.e. that are freehold), and to let them out again by copy or court roll to their great advancement, and to the undoing of your poor subjects.
American financier Mr Hersman, 58, last night told the Daily Mail the row has its origins in a dispute over the freehold of the six-storey £14million property involved, which is near the Royal Albert Hall in London's affluent Kensington.
A person was not eligible to sit in the State House of Representatives unless he was legally seized and possessed in his own right of a settled freehold estate of 500 acres of land and 10 Negroes, or at least 150 pounds sterling, clear of debt.