freehold
IPA: frˈihoʊɫd
noun
- 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.
verb
- To dispense property in this way.
adjective
- (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.
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Examples of "freehold" in Sentences
- Liggio is a two term freeholder.
- Security service interested in freehold.
- This was known as the 40 shilling freehold.
- The college was still the freeholder in 1969.
- In 1972 the freehold of the property was acquired.
- These freeholders were in the power of the landlords.
- But in 1989 the freehold was sold to the flat owners.
- It was apportioned to the Drapers company and freeholds.
- An example of a corporeal hereditament is land held in freehold.
- It used to be the westernmost outpost of the freehold of Valyria.