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Allodium
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
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or Alodium, a legal term for lands which are the absolute property of their owner, and not subject to any service or acknowledgment to a superior. It is thus the opposite of fe-odum or fief. The proper derivation of the word has been much discussed and is still doubtful, though it is probably compounded of all, whole or entire, and odh, property. Allodial tenure seems to have been common throughout northern Europe. It exists in Orkney and Shetland, but is unknown in England, the feudal system having been made universal by William the Conqueror.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Allodium'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/allodium.html. 1910.
Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Allodium'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/a/allodium.html. 1910.
