life estate
freehold
adjective
uk /ˈfriːhəʊld/ us /-hoʊld/
freehold property is owned by someone without time limit:
Almost all of its properties are freehold, giving the group a net asset value per share of about 345p.
freehold buildings/land/possession

Examples of freehold

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To the extent that it is possible, a comparison is made with arrangements made by freehold-farmers.
Even smallholders, crofters and cottagers in freehold parishes were better off in old age than former tenant farmers on the estates.
Any landholder who had invested scarce capital in purchasing freehold title was anxious to get maximum returns from the land.
The role of freehold land societies in the growth of suburbs, say.
The majority of tenants in 1538 were now gentry, the new farmer elite and their families, the tenure freehold.
Coverture affected women's rights to moveable goods, freehold land and customary land differently.
Of the freehold properties examined in the sample, two further kin links through female heirs can be established.
How many tenant farmers with big farms had freehold property elsewhere is difficult to ascertain.
The advantages of individual freehold are many, but four are prominent.
Freehold farms could also be used as security for loans and were therefore at risk of being lost to creditors.
It would appear that many of the freehold properties have been alienated at least twice, often three times, between 1669 and 1716.
A final change accelerated fencing: g. the need to demarcate boundaries clearly and protect property when freehold land was purchased.
It is not a possession that they lease out to others, while still retaining the freehold.
In the predominant freehold sector, rents were nominal.
Figures for freehold properties commonly ranged between 1s and 3s per annum.
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