Freehold

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Freehold \Free"hold`\, n. (Lw)
     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. --Kent. Burrill.
     [1913 Webster]
  


     {To abate into a freehold}. See under {Abate}.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  freehold
       n 1: an estate held in fee simple or for life
       2: tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  100 Moby Thesaurus words for "freehold":
     acres, adverse possession, alluvion, alluvium, alod, alodium,
     arable land, burgage, claim, clay, clod, colony, crust, de facto,
     de jure, dead hand, dependency, derivative title, dirt, dry land,
     dust, earth, estate of freehold, fee fief, fee position,
     fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional,
     fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum,
     feud, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, gavelkind, glebe,
     grassland, ground, having title to, hold, holding, knight service,
     land, landholdings, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim,
     legal possession, lithosphere, mandate, marginal land, marl, mold,
     mortmain, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning,
     possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession,
     prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights,
     real estate, real property, region, regolith, seisin, socage, sod,
     soil, squatting, subaerial deposit, sublease, subsoil, tenancy,
     tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, terra, terra firma, terrain,
     territory, the country, title, topsoil, underlease, undertenancy,
     usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, woodland
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  FREEHOLD, estates. An estate of freehold is an estate in lands or other real 
  property, held by a free tenure, for the life of the tenant or that of some 
  other person; or for some uncertain period. It is called liberum tenementum, 
  frank tenement or freehold; it was formerly described to be such an estate 
  as could only be created by livery of seisin, a ceremony similar to the 
  investiture of the feudal law. But since the introduction of certain modern 
  conveyances, by which an estate of freehold may be created without livery of 
  seisin, this description is not sufficient. 
       2. There are two qualities essentially requisite to the existence of a 
  freehold estate. 1. Iramobility; that is, the subject-matter must either be 
  land, or some interest issuing out of or annexed to land. 2. A sufficient 
  legal indeterminate duration; for if the utmost period of time to which an 
  estate can last, is fixed and determined, it is not an estate of freehold. 
  For example, if lands are conveyed to a man and his heirs, or for his life, 
  or for the life of another, or until he shall be married, or go to Europe, 
  he has an estate of freehold; but if such lands are limited to a man for one 
  hundred or five hundred years, if he shall so long live, he has not an 
  estate of freehold. Cruise on Real Property t. 1, s. 13, 14 and 15 Litt. 59; 
  1 Inst. 42, a; 5 Mass. R. 419; 4 Kent, Com. 23; 2 Bouv. Inst. 1690, et seq. 
  Freehold estates are of inheritance or not of inheritance. Cruise, t. 1, s. 
  42.   
  
  

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:

  Freehold, NJ (borough, FIPS 25200)
    Location: 40.25880 N, 74.27560 W
    Population (1990): 10742 (4057 housing units)
    Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
    Zip code(s): 07728
  Freehold, NY
    Zip code(s): 12431

From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:

  Freehold, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey
     Population (2000):    10976
     Housing Units (2000): 3821
     Land area (2000):     1.995230 sq. miles (5.167623 sq. km)
     Water area (2000):    0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
     Total area (2000):    1.995230 sq. miles (5.167623 sq. km)
     FIPS code:            25200
     Located within:       New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34
     Location:             40.260143 N, 74.275428 W
     ZIP Codes (1990):     07728
     Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
     Headwords:
      Freehold, NJ
      Freehold