Thls term, in Its vulgar acceptation, is only applled to houses and other buildlugs, but in lts origiual, proper, and legal sense it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal, kind. Thus, liberum tenementvm, frank tenement, or freehold, is appllcable not only to lands and otber solld objects, but also to offices, rents, commons, advowsons, franchises, peerages, etc. 2 Bl. Comm. 16; Mlt-chell v. warner, 5 Conn. 517; Oskaloosa Water Co. v. Board of Equalization, 84 Iowa, 4OT, 51 N. W. 18, 15 L. R. A. 296; Field ▼. Higgins, 36 Me. 341; Sacket v. wheaton, 17 Plck. (Mass.) 105; Lenfers v. Henke, 73 111. 408, 24 Am. Rep. 263
Source: Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed (1910)
