| 词汇 | freeholder |
| 释义 | freeholder noun[ C ] UKuk /ˈfriː.həʊl.dər/ us /ˈfriː.hoʊl.dɚ/ an owner of a particular building or piece of land（建筑物或土地的）终身保有者，产权所有者 Mortgages & real estate blockbusting brick bricks and mortaridiom BTL buy-to-let chain equity landlady letting mortgagee planning blight real estate broker real estate developer real estate office Realtor realty realty office refinance remortgage repossess A careful analysis was made of lists of freeholders, and other available sources, in the various counties. An assembly, composed of the governor, the council, and twelve delegates from the freeholders of the incipient settlements, these formed a government which enjoyed popular confidence. As a rule the party which the Liberals call Conservative has advocated that would-be settlers should be allowed to choose their tenure for themselves, and to be leaseholders or freeholders as they please. It had cleaned her streets and lightened the burdens of taxation which rested so grievously upon the freeholders. That was a matter of slight importance in England, as the number of small freeholders was limited, land being usually let for a term of years. freeholder | Business Englishfreeholder noun[ C ] PROPERTY, LAW mainly UKuk /ˈfriːhəʊldər/us someone who owns the freehold on a building or piece of land: Buildings insurance on flats is usually paid for by the freeholder and then charged to leaseholders as part of the annual service charge. Examples of freeholderfreeholder The former required that grand jurors should be freeholders within the county, and excluded women and peers. Such developments could also come from inheritance patterns linked to the out-migration of the descendants of long-standing local freeholders and farmers. This, in combination with the possibility, after 1789, of buying noble land, meant that freeholders were a majority at the start of the twentieth century. In this respect, there was probably no distinctive difference between the estate and freeholder parishes, since the conditions ought to have been similar. The table also indicates that there were no great differences compared with investigations of freeholders resident in other parts of the country. Summarizing, we can say that the system of retirement contracts on the estates filled two of the three functions that were applicable to freeholders. Most noticeable is the marked difference between tenant farmers and freeholders. Possibly as a result, it was more common among estate tenants to agree a retirement contract with a non-relative than it was among freeholders. Relations with local freeholders were good enough to enable him to hunt on their land. The socio-economic situation of crown tenants was similar to that of freeholders. The pensions of freeholders were in most cases two to three times larger, measured in amounts of corn per pensioner. However, it is clear that customary tenants, even very small ones, were given as much consideration as freeholders. In this respect there was no difference between tenant farmers and freeholders. Table 3 clearly shows the different arrangements made by tenant farmers and freeholders. Of course tenant farmers and their small freeholder allies were not the only county voters, but it was the farmers who predominated. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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