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freehold:
n. (15c)

1. An estate in land held in fee simple, in fee tail, or for term of life; any real property interest that is or may become possessory.  *  At common law, these estates were all created by enfeoffment with liver; of seisin.

2. The tenure by which such an estate is held.  — aka freehold estate; estate in freehold; freehold interest; frank-tenement; liberum tenementum.  Cf. LEASEHOLD.

Various Types of Freeholds:

determinable freehold – a freehold estate that is defeasible (capable of being cancelled) by operation of a special limitation.

perpetual freehold – an estate given to a grantee for life, and then successively to the grantee’s heirs for life.

charter land – “freehold land” held under royal charter or deed (generally for churches and leaders).

flying freehold – the part of a freehold property that encroaches on another owner’s property, not on the ground but above it, as with a balcony that extends over the property line.