Definition of "freehold" []

• Law An estate held in fee or for life. (noun)
• Law The tenure by which such an estate is held. (noun)
• A tenure of an office or a dignity for life. (noun)

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• "Knight Frank The freehold is on the market for € 2.75 million ($3.8 million) through estate agent Knight Frank International."
• "The Company granted a limited number of farms in freehold, most of them in the Cape District and the area immediately surrounding the village of Stellenbosch. 22 The overwhelming majority of land claimed by settlers were loan farms."
• "Note 52: Willem Burger's claims to Afgaan van de Kartouw: CA: RLR 14: 199, 22 Nov. 1756 to 16 Feb. 1788; Schalk Willem Burger's claims to Halve Dorschvloer CA: RLR 11: 7, 31 Mar. 1744 to 13 Apr. 1763; Halve Dorschvloer in freehold, DO: OSF II: 296, 15 Dec. 1763. back"