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Definition of Freeholders
1. freeholder [n] - See also: freeholder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Freeholders
Literary usage of Freeholders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by Richard Henry Tawney (1912)
"It may well be that Suffolk is a county of small freeholders in the days of Henry
VIII. and Elizabeth, because it was a county of free men and ..."
2. The Annual Register, Or, A View of the History, Politics, and Literature for by Edmund Burke (1830)
"New Registration of freeholders in Ireland—Mr. O'Council's Address to the ...
THE Act, which disfranchised the forty-shilling freeholders of Ireland, ..."
3. Colonial Records of Pennsylvania by Pennsylvania (1852)
"... to remedy all mistakes & lapses thereby given to the freeholders in such cases
to make their Election, which time is,now also passed : " And whereas, ..."
4. Collections by CT Historical Society (1908)
"Courts & shall act & do Every thing needfull in the Name of the sd proprietors
freeholders & Inhabitants for the Recover- ing the afore sd money with as ..."
5. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth (1903)
"It is more difficult to understand how the rule sprang up that there can be no
manor unless there are at least two freeholders.8 If we admit that any ..."
6. The Annual Register edited by Edmund Burke (1830)
"The notices given of an intention to register were not so numerous as might have
been anticipated from the hosts of small freeholders who used to be marched ..."
7. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1907)
"qualification of electors for knights of the shire not only to freeholders, but
to such only as possessed land of the clear annual value of forty shillings. ..."
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