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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 698 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ALLODIUM , or ALOnIum, a legal See also:

term for lands which are the See also:absolute See also:property of their owner, and not subject to any service or See also:acknowledgment to a See also:superior. It is thus the opposite of fe-odum or See also:fief. The proper derivation of the word has been much discussed and is still doubtful, though it is probably compounded of all, whole or entire, and odh, property: Allodial See also:tenure seems to have been See also:common throughout See also:northern See also:Europe. It exists in See also:Orkney and See also:Shetland, but is unknown in See also:England, the feudal See also:system having been made universal by See also:William the Conqueror.

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