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Definition of Freeholder

1. Noun. The owner of a freehold.

Definition of Freeholder

1. n. The possessor of a freehold.

Definition of Freeholder

1. Noun. A person who holds tenure by freehold ¹

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Definition of Freeholder

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Freeholder

Literary usage of Freeholder

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High Treason and ...by Thomas Bayly Howell by Thomas Bayly Howell (1824)
"My Lord, I am not a freeholder ; I was not asked the question : tbe question was not put ... My Lord the question was not put to me ; I am not a freeholder. ..."

2. Judicial and Statutory Definitions of Words and Phrases by West Publishing Company (1904)
"That one may be a freeholder, and not a householder, or a householder, and not a freeholder, seems to be too plain for argument "Householder" refers to the ..."

3. Cobbett's Complete Collection of State Trials and Proceedings for High ...by William Cobbett, David Jardine by William Cobbett, David Jardine (1818)
"Thomas Lawrence, esq. not a freeholder. Thomas Skipp Dyott Bucknell ... John Harsley, esq. not a freeholder. Edward Franklin, farmer excused on account of ..."

4. Prideaux's Precedents in Conveyancing: With Dissertations on Its Law and by Frederick Prideaux, John Whitcombe (1889)
"MORTGAGE by a BUILDER of LAND comprised in an BY A BUILDER AGREEMENT entitling him to SEPARATE LEASES from COMPRISED IN the freeholder as the houses arc ..."

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