Freeman

One who Is not a slave; one born free, or made so. In Old English Law. A freeholder, as distinguished from a villein. An inhabitant of a city. St. 1 Hen. VI. c. 11; 3 Steph. Comm. 196, 197; Cunningham.

One who is not a slave. One born free or made so. In Old English Law. A freeholder, as distinguished from a villein. An inhabitant of a city. Stat 1 Hen. VI. c. 11, 3 Steph. Com. 196. In Vermont (Acts 1903, p. 3) mention is made of freemen’s meetings.

This word has had various meanings at different stages of history. In the Roman law, it denoted one who was either born free or emancipated, and was the opposite of "slave." In feudal law, it designated an allodial proprietor, as distinguished from a vassal or feudal tenant. (And so in Pennsylvania colonial law. Fry's Election Case, 71 Pa. 308, 10 Am. Rep. 698.) In old English law, the word described a freeholder or tenant by free services; one who was not a villein. In modern legal phraseology, it 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 rights. A person in the possession and enjoyment of all the civil and political rights accorded to the pcople under a free government.

— Freeman's roll. A list of persons admitted as burgesses or freemen for the purposes of the rights reserved by the municipal corporation act, (5 & 6 Wm. IV. c. 76.) Distinguished from the Burgess Roll. 3 Steph. Comm. 197. The term was used, in early colonial history, in some of the American colonies.

A person born having the privileges company or city In old English laio. A freely, as distinguished In the civil law. A

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.

[Lat. liber homo.] In civil and general law. One born or made free; the opposite of a slave. Inst. 1. 3, 4, 5. Omnis homo aut est liber aut est servus. Bract. fol. 4 b. See Liber homo.

In old European law. An allodial proprietor; the opposite of a vassal or feudal tenant, (vassus or vassallus.) Esprit des Lois, liv. 30, c. 17. 1 Robertson's Charles V. Appendix, Note viii.

In early English law. A free tenant, or freeholder; one who held land freely, as distinguished from a villein. Mag. Charta, c. 14. Bract. fol. 24 b. 2 Inst. 27. See Liber homo.

In modern law. A member of a corporation, company or city, possessing certain privileges. 3 Steph. Com. 196, 197.