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e. A freehold, in common law jurisdictions such as England and Wales, Australia, [1] Canada, Ireland, and twenty states in the United States, is the common mode of ownership of real property, or land, [a] and all immovable structures attached to such land. It is in contrast to a leasehold, in which the property reverts to the owner of the land ...
Freehold Land Societies. Freehold Land Societies were a type of building society that flourished in England in the late 1840s and early 1850s, although new societies continued to be established for several more decades and some were still operating in the early 20th century. Their original purpose was to acquire land and divide it into plots or ...
Rhone v Stephens [1994] UKHL 3 is an English land law case, at the court of final appeal level, concerning the succession to the burden of positive covenants in freehold land within which it is of relatively broad application. It is distinguished in cases of regular payments related to easements in English law which are enjoyed (see Halsall v ...
Ground rent. As a legal term, ground rent specifically refers to regular payments made by a holder of a leasehold property to the freeholder or a superior leaseholder, as required under a lease. In this sense, a ground rent is created when a freehold piece of land is sold on a long lease or leases. [1] The ground rent provides an income for the ...
August 14, 1990. The Walker, Combs, Hartshorne, Oakley Farmstead (also known simply as the Oakley Farmhouse) [3] is located in the historic district of the village of West Freehold, a part of Freehold Township in Monmouth County, New Jersey, United States. [4] The house was built in 1686 and was added to the National Register of Historic Places ...
Political freedom was at the time associated with property ownership and individual independence. Cromwell and Ireton maintained that only property in freehold land or chartered trading rights gave a man the right to vote. They argued that this type of property ownership constituted a "stake in society", which entitles men to political power.
Rentcharge. In English land law, a rentcharge is an annual sum paid by the owner of freehold land (terre-tenant) to the owner of the rentcharge (rentcharger), a person who need have no other legal interest in the land. They are often known as chief rents in the north west of England but the term ground rent is used in many parts of the country ...
Ipswich and Suffolk Freehold Land Society (FLS) was founded in 1849 as part of the " forty-shilling freeholders movement" which developed across England. Its aim was to enable "the ordinary man" to obtain sufficient property to meet the requirements needed to gain the vote. [1] The movement had been started by James Taylor of Birmingham.