Odal - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: odalOdal
Among the early and medieval Teutonic peoples esp Scandinavians the heritable land held by the various odalmen constituting a family or kindred of freeborn tribesmen also the ownership of such land The odal was subject only to certain rights of the family or kindred in restricting the freedom of transfer or sale and giving certain rights of redemption in case of change of ownership by inheritance etc and perhaps to other rights of the kindred or the tribe Survivals of the early odal estates and tenure exist in Orkney and Shetland where it is usually called by the variant form udal...
Odalman
A man or woman having odal or able to share in it by inheritance...
Alodial, or Allodial, or Allodium
Alodial, or Allodial, or Allodium [Perhaps fr. odal, Icel.; odel, Dan. Sw., a patrimonial estate. See Wedgw.], a holding of lands in absolute possession without acknowledging any superior lord, contradistinguished from Feudal lands, which are held of superiors.-There are not any alodial lands in England, according to Coke, Co. Litt. 93 a; 1 Hall. Mid. Ages, ch. 2, pt. I....
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