| 单词 | FREEMAN |
| 释义 | This word has had various meanings at different stages of history. In theRoman law, it denoted one who was either born free or emancipated, and was theopposite of “slave.” In feudal law, it designated an allodial proprietor, as distinguishedfrom a vassal or feudal tenant. (And so in Pennsylvania colonial law. Fry’s Election Case,71 Pa. 308, 10 Am. Rep. 098.) In old English law, the word described a freeholder ortenant by free services; one who was not a villein. In modern legal phraseology, it isthe appellation of a member of a city or borough having the right of suffrage, or amember of any municipal corporation invested with full civic rights.A person in the possession and enjoyment of all the civil and political rightsaccorded to the people under a free government. |
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