Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Court of Magistrates and Freeholders
Hist. A South Carolina court with criminal jurisdiction over alleged offenses committed by slaves and free persons of color.
Freehold
n. 1. An estate in land held in fee simple, in fee tail, or for term of life. 0 At common law, these estates were all created by enfeoffment with livery of seisin. 2. The tenure by which such an estate is held. - Also termed freehold estate; freehold interest; franktenement; liberum tenementum. Cf LEASEHOLD.
customary freehold
See COPYHOLD.
estate less than freehold
See ESTATE.
freehold estate.
See FREEHOLD.
freehold interest.
See FREEHOLD
freehold land society
(usu. pl.) Hist. A society in England created to enable mechanics, artisans, and other workers to buy at the lowest possible price freehold land with a sufficient yearly value to entitle the owner to the right to vote in the county in which the land was located.
freeholder's court baron.
See COURT BARON.
freeholder.
Hist. One who possesses a freehold.
movable freehold
The land a seashore owner acquires or loses as water recedes or approaches.
nonfreehold estate
Any estate in real property without seisin, such as an estate for years, from period to period, at will, or at sufferance; any estate except the fee simple, fee tail, or life estate.
perpetual freehold
An estate given to a grantee for life, and then successively to the grantee's heirs for life. ( The effect of this type of freehold was to keep land within a family in perpetuity, much like a fee tail.