allodial

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An Act passed in 1830 provides and declares that all lands within the State "are allodial, so that, subject only to the liability to escheat, the entire and absolute property is vested in the owners according to the nature of their respective estates By this Act "all feudal tenures of every description, with all their incidents," were "abolished."

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  1. Pertaining to allodium or freehold; free of rent or service; held independently of a lord paramount: opposed to feudal. In the United States all lands are deemed allodial in the owner of the fee, but subject, nevertheless, to the ultimate ownership or dominion of the state. In England there are no allodial lands, all being held of the crown. The lands thus presented to these [Teutonic] warriors [as rewards for fidelity and courage] were called allodial; that is, their tenure involved no obligation of service whatever. Stillé, Stud. Med. Hist., p. 136. The allodial tenure, which is believed to have been originally the tenure of freemen, became in the Middle Ages the tenure of serfs. Maíne, Early Law and Custom, p. 341.
  2. Property held allodially. The contested territory which lay between the Danube and the Naab, with the town of Neuburg and the allodials, were adjudged, etc. Coxe, House of Austria, xxii.
  3. An allodialist.

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  • In addition to regulatory control, the UN will be given what is, in essence, the true title or allodial title of the entire planet. —  Alex Jones' Prison Planet.com
  • An Indigenous nation holds allodial title to the land. —  The Dominion: All Stories
  • Using military power to maintain peace in situations that have failed to establish legitimate allodial title is simply modifying colonial imperialism and exacerbating situations that further the reliance on military power and war, keeping illegitimate sovereigns of all types in business and robbing those polities exercising their last rites with civil disobedience and self-protection into further oppression. —  The Dominion: All Stories
  • And any system of administration that has failed to resolve the underlying allodial title disputes of indigenous peoples appropriately, which is through the collective agreement that these are issues of international character of equal merit of other colonial type interventions is contributing to the effective destruction of polities .... and is then in times of peace contributing to genocide. —  The Dominion: All Stories
  • Anything that separates a nation from their inherent allodial title can be considered a threat to the security of the nation and a breach of protection of the people. —  The Dominion: All Stories
 

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  1. = F. Portuguese allodial, from Middle Latin allodialis, from allodium: see allodium.
 

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