Freeman

This word has had various meanings at different stages of history. In the Roman law, it denoted one who was either Lorn free or emancipated, and was the opposite of “slave.” In feudal law, it old English law, the word described a freeholder or tenant by free services; one wha was not a villein. In modern legal pbraseology, if is the appellation of a member of a city or borough having the right of suffrage, or a member of any municipal corporation invested with full civic riglits, A person in the possession and enjoyment of ail the civil and political rights accorded to the people under a free government.