alodium
/əˈloʊdiəm/
noun
- Land owned completely by a person, without any obligation to a feudal lord or superior.
- The family's farm was an alodium, passed down freely for generations.
- In medieval times, owning an alodium meant you had no feudal duties to a lord.
- Historians studied the charter that granted the land as an alodium.
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