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Originally appearing in Volume V11, Page 76 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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English See also:law of real See also:property, an See also:estate in See also:land, not being less than an estate for See also:life. An estate for a See also:term of years, no See also:matter how See also:long, was considered inferior in dignity to an estate for life, and unworthy of a See also:freeman (see ESTATE). " Some See also:time before the reign of See also:Henry II., but apparently not so See also:early as Domesday, the expression liberum tenementum was introduced to designate land held by a freeman by a See also:free See also:tenure. Thus freehold tenure is the sum of the rights and duties which constitute the relation of a free See also:tenant to his See also:lord."2 In this ' Her See also:maiden name was See also:Mary See also:Ludwig. " Molly See also:Pitcher " was a See also:nickname given to her by the soldiers in reference to her carrying See also:water to soldiers overcome by See also:heat in the See also:battle of See also:Monmouth. She married Hays in 1769; Hays died soon after the See also:war, and later she married one See also:George McCauley. She lived for more than See also:forty years at See also:Carlisle, See also:Penn., where a See also:monument was erected to her memory in 1876. 2 See also:Digby's See also:History of the Law of Real Property.sense freehold is distinguished from See also:copyhold, which is a tenure having its origin in the relation of lord and villein (see COPYHOLD). Freehold is also distinguished from leasehold, which is an estate for a fixed number of years only. By See also:analogy the See also:interest of a See also:person who holds an See also:office for life is sometimes said to be a freehold interest. The term customary freeholds is applied to a See also:kind of copyhold tenure in the See also:north of See also:England, viz. tenure by copy of See also:court-See also:roll, but not, as in other cases, expressed to be at the will of the lord.

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