allodialismn.
/əˈləʊdɪəlɪz(ə)m/, U.S. /əˈloʊdiəˌlɪz(ə)m/, /əˈloʊdjəˌlɪz(ə)m/ European History.
The allodial system of land ownership.
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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > freehold > absolute possession
udal1588
allodiality1729
allodialism1823
1823 Retrosp. Rev. 8 197 The ancient Saxon system was that of Allodialism.
1864 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold (U.S. ed.) II. iv. iii. 413 Feudalism supervening on allodialism.
1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. (ed. 2) I. vii. 207 A progress..from alodialism to feudalism.
1975 Jrnl. Hist. Ideas 36 506 Smith and Millar..saw feudalism as a development from a free-for-all allodialism.
2007 J. Burrow Hist. of Histories v. xxiii. 386 For him [sc. William Stubbs] it was on the free holding of land, known as allodialism, that the original Teutonic liberty had rested.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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