The house belongs to some large tenant-farmer, who has a little freehold property, and thus makes a profit from it.
"Hodge and His Masters"
Richard Jefferies
The Crown is the universal superior, and all the land is freehold.
"Second Shetland Truck System Report"
William Guthrie
The powerful blast destroyed their ancient freehold tenures, reducing them into wretched copyholds: and to the disgrace of succeeding ages, many of them retain this mark of Norman slavery to the present day.
"An History of Birmingham (1783)"
William Hutton