Crossword-Solution: ALODIAL 7 letters, 2 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 8

Now (says _Gaguinus_) the _French_ Lawyers call _Salick_ Land, such as belongs only to the King, and is different from the _Alodial_ which concerns the Subjects; to whom, by that Law, is granted a free Dominion of any thing, not excluding the Princely Authority." And to the same Purpose, not only almost all the _Francogallican Historians_, but even all the _Lawyers_ and _Pettifoggers_ have wrote to this Day, as _Paponius_ testifies, _Arrest._ lib.

Certain feudal tenants, and I suppose also alodial proprietors, were bound to serve on horseback, equipped with the coat of mail.

All the land that is not so accounted for is folcland, or public land." _William Stubbs, Constitutional History of England, chapter 3, section 24, and chapter 5, section 36._ {43} "Alodial lands are commonly opposed to beneficiary or feudal; the former being strictly proprietary, while the latter depended upon a superior.

The tenant in Gavelkind retained many of the properties of alodial ownership: his lands were devisable by will; in case of intestacy they descended to all his sons equally; they were not liable to escheat for felony … and they could be aliened by the tenant at the age of fifteen.

After an exile of three years he was permitted to return to Germany and his alodial estates in Saxony were restored to him.