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Allodial

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Free; not subject to the rights of any lord or superior; owned without obligation of vassalage or fealty; the opposite of feudal.

A description given to the outright ownership of land that did not impose upon its owner the performance of feudal duties.

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Feudalism.



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He pushed vigorously for allodial ownership, wherein landowners would hold absolute dominion over their property with no feudal obligations to the state.
Building Regulation, Market Alternatives, and Allodial Policy, New York, New York: Avebury Press, 1997.
 
 
 
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