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Someone who holds the freehold of a property.
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One who has a freehold estate, by holding the land by fee simple, which is to hold a piece of property outright with no other claims on it. In colonial times, a freeholder had the right to vote and hold public office.
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an owner of land
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The person who owns the freehold
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a person who held land in fee simple. He had the right to vote and hold public office
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Someone who owns the freehold of a property.
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The owner of land.
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Someone who owns the freehold of the property.
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When someone owns land or property outright. Property deeds will identify whether a property is held on a leasehold or freehold basis.
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One holding an estate in "fee simple absolute in possession".
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defined in 1684 as "a person who holds lands, tenements or hereditaments for his owne life, for the life of his wife, or for the life of any other person or persons." \(Hening, comp. Statutes at Large,III,26.) Subsequent acts redefined the definition to male, twenty-one years of age or older, with a freehold of twenty-five acres with a house, or one hundred acres without a house, and excluded convicted recusants. \(Ibid, III, 172-75, 236-46 IV, 475-78)
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Someone who owns a property and the land it stands on.
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One who owns freehold property rights (i.e. in a piece of real estate; either land or a building).
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One who owns a freehold interest in real property.
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