freehold

buying a freehold property

selling a freehold property

Still they increased in numbers and zealously worked their freeholds.

But because of the freehold laws, you own all of the land under the property, so you can burrow down.

Rhode Island clung to her freehold qualification through thirty years of agitation.

So it happened that the freehold of modest proportions became the cherished unit of American farmers.

It is not surprising, therefore, to find business men taking the lead in breaking down freehold limitations on the suffrage.

Where the freehold qualification was applied, business men who did not own land were deprived of the vote and excluded from office.

In Virginia it was customary for each parish to hire its incumbent from year to year, so that no freehold in the endowment might be established.

It is true that in the provision for popular elections, the suffrage was finally restricted to property owners or taxpayers, with a leaning toward the freehold qualification.

If they could not get freeholds, they would not settle at all; thus they forced proprietors and companies to bid for their enterprise by selling land in small lots.

Nevertheless, it was relatively easy for any man to acquire a small freehold, so cheap and abundant was land;and in fact a large proportion of the colonists were land owners.