0 an owner of a particular building or piece of land
1 someone who owns the freehold on a building or piece of land:
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.
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.
