Freehold
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Freehold may refer to:
  • Freehold (law) and fee simple
    Fee simple
    In English law, a fee simple is an estate in land, a form of freehold ownership. It is the most common way that real estate is owned in common law countries, and is ordinarily the most complete ownership interest that can be had in real property short of allodial title, which is often reserved...

    : ownership of land and the buildings on such land (as opposed to a leasehold estate
    Leasehold estate
    A leasehold estate is an ownership of a temporary right to land or property in which a lessee or a tenant holds rights of real property by some form of title from a lessor or landlord....

     where property reverts to the owner when the lease expires)
  • customary freehold
    Customary freehold
    Customary freehold is in English law a species of tenure which may be described as a variety of copyhold. It is also termed privileged copyhold or copyhold of frank tenure. It is a tenure by copy of court roll, but not expressed to be at the will of the lord. It is, in fact, only a superior kind of...

    , privileged copyhold or copyhold of frank tenure


Places
  • places in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States:
    • Freehold Borough, New Jersey
      Freehold Borough, New Jersey
      Freehold is a borough in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the borough population was 12,052. It is the county seat of Monmouth County....

      , downtown
    • Freehold Township, New Jersey
      Freehold Township, New Jersey
      Freehold Township is a Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the township population was 36,184. Freehold Township was first formed on October 31, 1693, and was incorporated as a township by an Act of the New Jersey Legislature on February 21,...

      , surrounding area
  • Freehold, New York
    Freehold, New York
    Freehold is an unincorporated hamlet in the town of Greenville in Greene County, New York, United States. It has the ZIP Code 12431, and its own fire district....

    , United States
  • Freehold Township, Warren County, Pennsylvania, United States:
  • Board of Chosen Freeholders
    Board of Chosen Freeholders
    In New Jersey, the Boards of Chosen Freeholders are the county legislatures in each of that state's 21 counties.- Origin :New Jersey's system of naming county legislators "freeholders" is unique in the United States...

    , an elected county official in the state of New Jersey
  • Freehold, a Victorian terraced area in the north east of Lancaster, Lancashire
    Lancaster, Lancashire
    Lancaster is the county town of Lancashire, England. It is situated on the River Lune and has a population of 45,952. Lancaster is a constituent settlement of the wider City of Lancaster, local government district which has a population of 133,914 and encompasses several outlying towns, including...

    , United Kingdom


Fiction
  • Freehold, Iowa, the fictional location of the headquarters of the Landover Baptist Church
  • Farnham's Freehold
    Farnham's Freehold
    Farnham's Freehold is a science fiction novel set in the near future by Robert A. Heinlein. A serialised version, edited by Frederik Pohl, appeared in Worlds of If magazine . The complete version was published in novel form by G.P...

    , a novel written by Robert A. Heinlein in 1965
  • Freehold (novel)
    Freehold (novel)
    Freehold is a science fiction novel written by Michael Z. Williamson, published in 2004 by Baen Books. The Freehold series is continued in The Weapon which begins prior to Freehold and ends approximately two years afterwards.-Plot:...

    , 2004 science fiction novel by Michael Z. Williamson
  • Valyrian Freehold, an ancient civilization in 1996 fantasy novel A Song of Ice and Fire by George R. R. Martin


Ships, a United States Navy minesweeper and tug in commission from 1917 to 1919
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