Legal Definition and Related Resources of Allodium
Meaning of Allodium
(Sax. a, privative, and lode or leude, a vassal; that is, without vassalage). An estate held by absolute ownership, without recognizing any superior to whom any duty is due on account thereof. 1 Washb. Real Prop. 16; 9 Cow. (N. Y.) 513. It is used in opposition to feodum or fief, which means property the use of which was bestowed upon another by the proprietor, on condition that the grantee should perform certain services for the grantor, and upon the failure of which the property should revert to the original possessor.
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Concept of Allodium in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Allodium: Land owned by individuals, as opposed to the feudal system of ownership of all land by a king or ruler.
Concept of Allodium in the context of Real Property
A short definition of Allodium: Land owned by individuals, as opposed to the feudal system of ownership of all land by a king or ruler.
Concept of “Allodium, Alodium, Alodum”
Traditional meaning of allodium, alodium, alodum in English (with some legal use of this latin concept in England and the United States in the XIX Century) [1]: (in Latin) An estate held absolutely, of no superior; hence, owing no rent, fealty, or service; see 2nd Book (“The Rights of Things”), Blackstone’s Commentaries on the Laws of England 105.
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- Based on A Concise Law Dictionary of Words, Phrases and Maxims, “Allodium, Alodium, Alodum”, Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1911, United States. It is also called the Stimson’s Law dictionary. This term and/or definition may be absolete.
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