From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Freehold \Free"hold'\, noun (Lw) An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. --Kent. Burrill.
{To abate into a freehold}. See under {Abate}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: an estate held in fee simple or for life
2: tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
100 Moby Thesaurus words for "freehold": acres, adverse possession, alluvion, alluvium, alod, alodium, arable land, burgage, claim, clay, clod, colony, crust, de facto, de jure, dead hand, dependency, derivative title, dirt, dry land, dust, earth, estate of freehold, fee fief, fee position, fee simple, fee simple absolute, fee simple conditional, fee simple defeasible, fee simple determinable, fee tail, feodum, feud, fiefdom, frankalmoign, free socage, gavelkind, glebe, grassland, ground, having title to, hold, holding, knight service, land, landholdings, lay fee, lease, leasehold, legal claim, legal possession, lithosphere, mandate, marginal land, marl, mold, mortmain, occupancy, occupation, original title, owning, possessing, possession, preoccupancy, preoccupation, prepossession, prescription, property, property rights, proprietary rights, real estate, real property, region, regolith, seisin, socage, sod, soil, squatting, subaerial deposit, sublease, subsoil, tenancy, tenantry, tenure, tenure in chivalry, terra, terra firma, terrain, territory, the country, title, topsoil, underlease, undertenancy, usucapion, villein socage, villeinhold, villenage, woodland
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Freehold, NJ (borough, FIPS 25200) Location: 40.25880 N, 74.27560 W Population (1990): 10742 (4057 housing units) Area: 5.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 07728 Freehold, NY Zip code(s): 12431
From U.S. Gazetteer Places (2000) [gaz-place]:
Freehold, NJ -- U.S. borough in New Jersey Population (2000): 10976 Housing Units (2000): 3821 Land area (2000): 1.995230 sq. miles (5.167623 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 1.995230 sq. miles (5.167623 sq. km) FIPS code: 25200 Located within: New Jersey (NJ), FIPS 34 Location: 40.260143 N, 74.275428 W ZIP Codes (1990): 07728 Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs. Headwords: Freehold, NJ Freehold
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