Obs. [f. FREE a. + HOLDING vbl. sb.; after FREEHOLD.] = FREEHOLD.
1591. Charter of Kilmarnock, in A. M‘Kay, The History of Kilmarnock (1864), 359. We … have given … to our well-beloved cousin, Thomas, Lord Boyd, in free-holding or life-rent, for all the days of his life.
1637. Rutherford, Lett., cciii. (1891), 401. We are but loose in trying our free-holding of Christ, and making sure work of Christ.
[1715. M. Davies, Athenæ Britannicæ, I. 306. The possession Franktenement, must be either according to Common-Law or Custom; according to Common-Law it must be the Freeholding of an Estate, either in Fee-simple or Fee-tail, general or special.]
