a statutory right or privilege granted to a person or group by a government (especially the rights of citizenship and the right to vote)
The granting of the right to vote to an individual or a group. To be "disenfranchised" is to have no vote, and by extension no voice in determining your own or your community's governance.
this is the term used in the legislation to indicate a right to require an owner to transfer its freehold interest to a qualifying person, or group of persons, asserting their rights as set out in that legislation and subject to the payment of compensation to the current owner. Although not strictly correct, the term 'enfranchisement' is also sometimes used for convenience when a leasehold interest is being extended under the legislation rather than the freehold interest being acquired.
When a leaseholder buys the freehold of the property he is leasing.