They themselves are termed the King's Rentallers, or kindly tenants; under which denomination each of them has a right, of an Allodial nature, to a small piece of ground.
"Minstrelsy of the Scottish border (3rd ed) (1 of 3)"
Walter Scott
Land was better protected when held of a powerful chieftain than when held in one's own right; and hence the practice of commendation, by which free Allodial proprietors were transformed into the tenants of a lord, became fashionable and was gradually extended to all kinds of estates.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske
Here was no Allodial property, no censitive hereditary domain, as in the rest of, otherwise, feudal Europe.
"Irish Race in the Past and the Present"
Aug. J. Thebaud