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Keywords: Freeholder, Cultivated, Born, Farmer, Free

Related Terms: Tenancy In Common, Severalty, Right Of Survivorship, Joint Ownership, Birthright, Coverture, Curtesy, Demesne, Descent, Divest, Dowager, Dower, Entail, Have, Inherit, Inheritance , Jointure, Levirate, Occupy, Paterfamilias, Primogeniture, Widow, Widower, Joint Tenancy, Community Property, Joint Property, Separate Property, Tenancy-In-Common, Joint Tenants, Tenants In Common, Tenants-In-Common, Fee Tail, Tenancy By The Entirety, Joint Tenancy With Right Of Survivorship, Freeholder, Tenancy By The Entireties, Co-Ownership, Feme Sole, Villein, Tenants By The Entirety, Tenant In Common, Sole Ownership, Tenancy By Entirety, Tenant At Sufferance, Co-Tenancy, Childminder, Owner Occupant, Et Uxor, Stirpes

A common man, or one of the commonly of the first or most respectable class; a freeholder; a man free born.

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The rank held by a free common-born person.

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in former times was free and cultivated his own land

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a farmer who owns his own land

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a member of a small class of small freeholders of common birth who cultivated their own land

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