freehold estate
noun[C]
PROPERTY,LAWmainlyUKukus→freeholdnoun
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Persons possessed of afreeholdestatefor life or lives in lands or tenements of the clear yearly value of 5.
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Wikipedia
This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The opposite of a fief was the freehold, allod or "allodium", which roughly corresponds to the presentfreeholdestate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The secretary and the judges will have a,freeholdestatetherein, in five hundred acres of land.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Afreeholdestatecould be transferable to the owner's heirs and assigns (successors by inheritance or purchase including gift, respectively), in which case it was a fee simple estate.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.A ground rent being afreeholdestate, created by deed and perpetual in duration, no presumption that it had been released could, at common law, arise from lapse of time.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Thefreeholdestatewas to be preferred because it allowed the owner to make the most of what was now deemed his own (cf.
From theCambridge English Corpus
It is rare to find afreeholdestatethat possesses any communal facilities.
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Hansard archive
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An indolent country gentleman had afreeholdestateproducing about five hundred a-year.
FromProject Gutenberg
A unit-holder is defined as the person who is entitled in law to be registered as the proprietor of thefreeholdestatein his unit.
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Hansard archive
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It is defined in clause 1 as "afreeholdestatein commonhold land".
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