freehold

IPA: frˈihoʊɫd

Freehold tenure.
(property law) Real property held by a tenure of this type.
An urban area of Werneth, Oldham, Greater Manchester, England (OS grid ref SD9104).
A suburb of Lancaster, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD4861).
A borough in New Jersey, United States; properly, Freehold Borough.
A township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States; properly, Freehold Township.
A hamlet in the town of Greenville, Greene County, New York, United States.
A township in Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States.

(property law) Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.

Examples of "freehold" in Sentences

In England, Mat, they call a freehold farmer a yeoman.
But the public only has a right to access woodland classified as "freehold".
Africans could hold property in freehold in certain areas; they can no longer do so.
Knight Frank The freehold is on the market for € 2.75 million ($3.8 million) through estate agent Knight Frank International.
The whole is encompassed by rich meadows, wearing a park-like appearance; held with the freehold, which is limited to less than Five Acres.
The company to which I finally conveyed my freehold was a brand-new one, registered for the occasion and soon, no doubt, doomed to lose its identity in the kaleidoscopic changes of small finance.
The Company granted a limited number of farms in freehold, most of them in the Cape District and the area immediately surrounding the village of Stellenbosch. 22 The overwhelming majority of land claimed by settlers were loan farms.
Note 52: Willem Burger's claims to Afgaan van de Kartouw: CA: RLR 14: 199, 22 Nov. 1756 to 16 Feb. 1788; Schalk Willem Burger's claims to Halve Dorschvloer CA: RLR 11: 7, 31 Mar. 1744 to 13 Apr. 1763; Halve Dorschvloer in freehold, DO: OSF II: 296, 15 Dec. 1763. back