allodia

Plural of allodium. allodial (a-lō'di-al), a. and n. [F. Pg.allodial, The lands thus presented to these [Teutonic] warriors [as rewards for fidelity and courage] were called allodial ; that is, their tenure involved no obligation of service whatever. Stillé , Stud. Med. Hist., p. 136. The allodial tenure, which is believed to have been originally the tenure of freemen, became in the Middle Maine , Early Law and Custom, p. 341. Ages the tenure of serfs. II. n. 1. Property held allod i ally. Coxe , House of Austria, xxii. IMG:content-0529.png:[blocks in formation] allodium (a-lō'di-um), n.; pl. allodia (-a). [ML., also spelled alodium, alodum, alod is, alodes, alaudium, alaudum, alaudes, > It. Pg. allodio = Sp. aloc alodio Pr. alod i, also aloc, alo, = OF. aleu, aleud, alod, alode, alodie, aloud, alieu, alleu, allieu, alloet, alloeuf (Roque fort), F. alleu. The origin of ML. allodium is disputed; is disputed; prob. = alienable and inheritable, even though held of a superior alienable and inheritable, even The allod in some form or other is probably as old as the institution of individual landed property, and we may regard it as equivalent to or directly descended from the which took appropriated portion of the domain of the group to which he belonged-tribe, joint-family, village community, or nascent city. Maine , Early Law and Custom, p. 339.