Word Meanings - FREEHOLDER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The possessor of a freehold.

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• POSSESSOR
  One who possesses; one who occupies, holds, owns, or controls; one who has actual participation or enjoyment, generally of that which is desirable; a proprietor. "Possessors of eternal glory." Law. As if he had been possessor of the whole world.
• FREEHOLD
  An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held. Kent. Burrill. To abate into a freehold. See under Abate.
• POSSESSORY
  Of or pertaining to possession, either as a fact or a right; of the nature of possession; as, a possessory interest; a possessory lord. Possessory action or suit , an action to regain or obtain possession of something. See under Petitory.
• FREEHOLDER
  The possessor of a freehold.
• DISPOSSESSOR
  One who dispossesses. Cowley.
• PREPOSSESSOR
  One who possesses, or occupies, previously. R. Brady.
• UNDERPOSSESSOR
  One who possesses or holds anything subject to the superior of another. Jer. Taylor.