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allodial
From the low Latin allodium: every man's own land, which he possesses in his own right, without owing any rent or service to a superior - property, in the highest degree. Opposed, feodum, a fee. Wholly independent, and held of no superior. Held in free and absolute ownership. "All lands . . are declared to be allodial, and feudal tenures are prohibited" - constitution of Wisconsin. This means little more than if the framers had said "free" or "held in free and absolute ownership", as contradistinguished from feudal tenures, the prohibition of which, with their servitudes and attendant hindrances to free and ready transfer of realty, constituted the chief object of the provision, all one's own: the whole estate. .
Source : William C. Anderson, A Dictionary of Law (1893)
Language : English