Freeholder [noun]
Definition of Freeholder:
owner of property leased
Synonyms of Freeholder:
Sentence/Example of Freeholder:
On the death of a freeholder his land was divided amongst his sons equally, according to what is called "the custom of gavelkind."
At her instance, Akins and another resident freeholder had already signed the bond when Dan arrived.
A franklin was a freeman, or freeholder, or owner of the land on which he dwelt.
However the conference did its work, and started the Freeholder, which appeared on the 1st of January, 1850.
Pennsylvania required him to be a freeholder, but New Hampshire and Vermont were satisfied with the payment of a poll-tax.
In this case the aggressor was not the farmer of the demesne, but a freeholder owning a third of the manor.
Every Basque freeholder (vecino) could prove himself noble and thus eligible to any office.
To the smaller freeholder, as has been noticed, the enclosure of waste land did much harm, for it was necessary to his holding.
It does not matter whether he worked as a wage earner, tenant or freeholder, in the end the result would be the same.
I think I can see now the disappointed rascal of a freeholder when he only had his bare soil left once more.