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<STRONG>Allodial title</STRONG> is a concept in some systems of property law. It describes a situation where <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=real-property&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>real property</A> (i.e., land, <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=building&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>buildings</A> and <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=fixtures&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>fixtures</A>) is owned free and clear of any <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=encumbrance&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>encumbrances</A>, including <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=lien&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>liens</A>, <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=mortgage&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>mortgages</A> and <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=tax&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>tax</A> obligations. Allodial title is <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=inalienable-rights&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>inalienable</A>, in that it cannot be taken by any <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=operation-of-law&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>operation of law</A> for any reason whatsoever. True allodial title is rare, with most property ownership in the common law world—primarily, the <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=united-kingdom&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>United Kingdom</A>, the <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=united-states&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>United States</A>, <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=canada&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>Canada</A>, <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=australia&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>Australia</A> and <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=new-zealand&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>New Zealand</A>—described more properly as being in <I><A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=fee-simple&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>fee simple</A></I>. In particular, in the nations recognising <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=queen-elizabeth-ii&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>Elizabeth II</A> as sovereign, land is said to be "held of the Crown." In common legal use, allodial title is used to distinguish absolute ownership of land by individuals from <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=feudalism&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>feudal</A> ownership, where property ownership is dependent on relationship to a <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=lord&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>lord</A> or the <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=monarch&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>sovereign</A>. Webster's first dictionary says allodium is "land which is absolute property of the owner, real estate held in absolute independence, without being subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgement to a superior. It is thus opposed to <I>feud.</I> In England, there is no allodial land, all land being held of the king; but in the United States most lands are allodial." In France while allodial title existed before the <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=french-revolution&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>French Revolution</A> it was rare and limited to <SPAN class=brokenlink>ecclesiatical</SPAN> properties and property that had fallen out of feudal ownership. After the French Revolution allodial title became the norm in France and other civil law countries that were under <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=napoleon-bonaparte&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>Napoleonic</A> legal influences. Interestingly <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=quebec-city-quebec&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>Quebec</A> adopted a form of allodial title when it abolished feudalism in the mid-nineteenth century making the forms of ownership in Upper and <A class=ilnk onclick="assignParam('navinfo','method|4'+getLinkTextForCookie(this));" href="http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessionid=2gwk4iwq16jno?tname=lower-canada&sbid=lc04b" target=_top>Lower Canada</A> remarkably similar in substance.
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This was the kind of title that I was looking for as explained by Michael Badnarik on what one could do on their "property."
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