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freeholder|ˈfriːhəʊldə(r)|
[f. free a. + holder; rendering AF. fraunc tenaunt.]
1. One who possesses a freehold estate.
For the use in Scots. Law see quot. 1890.
c1425Wyntoun Cron. viii. xi. 9 In Fyfe þat tyme wes nane Erle, Lord, na Capytane, Ðe Fre-haldarys of þat Land. 1523Fitzherb. Surv. Prol., And than may the lorde of y⊇ sayd maners..haue parfyte knowledge..who is his fre⁓holders, copyeholders, customarye tenaunte, or tenaunt at his wyll. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 1169 He must (at least) hold up his hand, By twelve Free-holders to be scann'd. 1765Blackstone Comm. i. ix. 347 He [the coroner] is still chosen by all the freeholders in the county court. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. i. 13 The cultivator of the soil was, for the most part, a freeholder. 1890Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (ed. 7), Freeholder..in modern language, applied to such as, before the passing of the Reform Act of 1832, were entitled to elect or be elected members of Parliament, and who must have held lands extending to a forty shilling land of old extent, or to {pstlg}400 Scots of valued rent.
fig.1637Rutherford Let. 9 Sep. (1891) 499 The whole army of the redeemed ones sit rent-free in heaven..we are all freeholders. 1670Brooks Wks. (1867) VI. 373 Hypocrites are hell's free-holders. 1751Jortin Serm. (1771) V. ix. 195 God did not make them freeholders; they held their possessions under him.
2. slang. (See quot.)
a1700B. E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Freeholder, he whose Wife goes with him to the Ale-house. 1725in New Cant. Dict.
Hence ˈfreeholderˌship.
1810Bentham Packing (1821) 247. 1862 Ansted Channel Isl. iv. xxiii. (ed. 2) 544 It began with fiefs, and it has developed a system of practical freeholdership. |