English Explanatory Dictionary

flying freehold

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The freehold of property in an upper storey above a lower storey that belongs to a different freehold; the converse of creeping freehold.

Word forms

flying freehold flying freeholds

Etymology

From the idea that the "ground" on which the freehold estate stands is above the actual ground, and hence that the freehold is flying.

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