In 1982, Chelsea were, at the nadir of their fortunes, acquired by Ken Bates for the nominal sum of £ 1, although by now the Stamford Bridge freehold had been sold to property developers, meaning the club faced losing their home.

After a long-running legal battle, Bates reunited the stadium freehold with the club in 1992 by doing a deal with the banks of the property developers, who had been bankrupted by a market crash.

Work began on the East Stand in 1972 but the project was beset with problems and was never completed ; the cost brought the club close to bankruptcy, culminating in the freehold being sold to property developers.

Before his return, he commented on the drafting of the state's constitution ; he continued to support freehold suffrage, by which only property holders could vote.

Recent liberalisation in the property market allowing non citizens to buy freehold land has resulted in a major boom in the construction and real estate sectors, with several signature developments such as the 2 Palm Islands, the World ( archipelago ), Dubai Marina, Jumeirah Lake Towers, and a number of other developments, offering villas and high rise apartments and office space.

Under these acts, all ( male ) owners of freehold property or land worth at least forty shillings in a particular county were entitled to vote in that county.

The exemption for saffron grounds has puzzled historians ; one has suggested that it may have been a scribal error for " sovereign grounds ", grounds that were the exclusive freehold property of their owners, while others have commented on the importance of saffron to local industry.

The township's title, ' freehold ', was manifestly adapted from the English noun ( occasionally utilized as an adverb ) meaning " the tenure of property held in fee simple for life ".

After the success of freehold property in Dubai, Ajman was the second emirate to offer freehold property.

These can be general ( i. e., to do anything which can legally be done by an attorney ), or relate to a specific act ( e. g., to sell freehold property ).

It is relatively common for a trustee in bankruptcy to disclaim freehold property which may give rise to a liability, for example the common parts of a block of flats owned by the bankrupt would ordinarily pass to the trustee to be realised in order to pay his debts, but the property may give the landlord an obligation to spend money for the benefit of lesees of the flats.

The bankruptcy of the original owner means that the freehold is no longer the bankrupt's legal property, and the disclaimer destroys the freehold estate, so that the land ceases to be owned by anyone and effectively escheats to become land held by the Crown in demesne.

However, usually, in the example given above, the tenants of the flats, or their mortgagees would exercise their rights given by the Insolvency Act 1986 to have the freehold property transferred to them.

This created a slow drain of property out of registration, amounting to some hundreds of freehold titles in each year.

The Earls of Roden had property interests in Dundalk for over three centuries, and at an auction in July 2006 the 10th Earl sold his freehold of the town, including ground rents, mineral rights, manorial rights, the reversion of leases and the freehold of highways, common land, and the fair green.

Nonetheless, much demolition was necessary, and many freehold and leasehold interests had to be bought out at current property values.

In England and Wales fee simple is the only freehold estate that remains ; a life estate can only be created in equity and is not a right in property.

Elections were open to males 21 years or older who owned freehold property worth £ 50 a year.

After agreement from the Cardiff Athletic Club, the freehold of the south ground was transferred solely to the WRU in July 1968.

Another very common arrangement was ( and is ) for the landlord to own the premises ( whether freehold or leasehold ) independently of the brewer, but then to take a mortgage loan from a brewery, either to finance the purchase of the pub initially, or to refurbish it, and be required as a term of the loan to observe the solus tie.

In line with this initiative, the Dubai International Financial Centre was announced, offering 55. 5 % foreign ownership, no withholding tax, freehold land and office space and a tailor-made financial regulatory system with laws taken from best practice in other leading financial centres like New York, London, Zürich and Singapore.

* Scriven, John, ( Serjeant at law ), A treatise on copyhold, customary freehold, and ancient demesne tenure: with the jurisdiction of Courts baron and Courts leet ; also an appendix, containing rules for holding Customary courts, Courts baron and Courts leet, forms of court rolls, deputations, and copyhold assurances, and extracts from the relative acts of Parliament, 2 vols., 2nd.

The freehold of the building and adjoining land was transferred from the Radcliffe Trustees to the University in 1927.

Labour's ' Usehold ' policy on land was in essence the replacement of freehold tenure by a system of perpetual lease from the State, with all land transfer conducted through the State ( the full nationalisation of farmland ).

In 1990 the Academy invested the capital accrued from the Shaw bequest in the freehold of 18 Chenies Street, with the help of donations from the Foundation for Sport and the Arts and British Telecommunications.

As explained on the Sark government website: " There is no true freehold, all land being held on perpetual lease ( fief ) from the Seigneur, and the 40 properties ( Tenements ) into which the Island is divided ( as well as a few other holdings in perpetual fief ) can only pass by strict rules of inheritance or by sale.

As in many land purchases at that time it is possible that the parties were talking at cross purposes ; Blenkinsopp thinking he had purchased outright freehold, and the Tāngata whenua believing they had received koha ( a gift ) from him to have use of the land, i. e. similar to rental or lease in the modern sense.

The freehold company has the right to collect annual ground rents from each of the flat owners in the building.

In Domesday Earley is " held by Osbern Giffard from the King, previously Dunn held it from King Edward in freehold.

John Forester ( died c. 1521 ) leased Wellington Hay from perhaps 1512, and another John Forester bought its freehold in 1555.

Her successor Queen Elizabeth I granted in 1594 a lease of the manor to Henry Percy, 9th Earl of Northumberland on his marriage to Dorothy Devereux the younger daughter of Walter Devereux, 1st Earl of Essex, who later received a grant of the freehold from King James I in 1604.

Selectors followed and they marked out, leased and improved allotments, which would enable them to gain freehold titles from the Crown.

At present many millions of dollars in development are planned for the island and the impact of these has led to considerable opposition from some residents who fear the effects this development will have on the environmental values of Magnetic's lowlands which are not protected by the national park ; these areas represent only 20 % of the whole island, and of this 20 %, most is freehold land and is already developed.

From the late 19th century freehold land was given out, but it was not until the 1950s that a proper settlement scheme was initiated, mainly drawing settlers from mainland Tasmania and central New South Wales to Flinders Island's eastern shore.

With small inheritances from his mother and an aunt, Darwin invested in housing, buying the freehold of several buildings in Shrewsbury and getting income from rents.

The club signed a lease for the land on 14 May 1900, giving them the option to buy within 14 years from the owner, Sandwell Park Colliery, and Albion did indeed buy the freehold on the ground in June 1913.

As a part of financial restructuring in the late 1970s, the freehold was separated from the club and when new Chelsea chairman Ken Bates bought the club for £ 1 in 1982, he did not buy the ground.

On 13 June 2011 the BBC announced that Television Centre was on the market, and that it was ' inviting bid proposals from people looking for a conventional, freehold property or those interested in a joint venture ', suggesting that it may yet remain connected to the Corporation.

The Stamford Bridge freehold, the pitch, the turnstiles and Chelsea's naming rights are now owned by Chelsea Pitch Owners, a non-profit organisation in which fans are the shareholders.

On 3 October 2011, Chelsea made a proposal to CPO shareholders to buy back the freehold to the land on which Stamford Bridge sits, stating that " buying back the freehold removes a potential hurdle should a suitable site become available in the future ".

In 1527 he persuaded the Riksdag of Västerås ( comprising the nobles, clergy, burghers, and freehold peasants ) to confiscate church lands, which comprised 21 % of the farmland.

Ajman is currently the only emirate in the UAE offering investors of any nationality fully transparent true 100 % freehold ownership on real estate, which in turn has attracted a huge number of investors ( local and international ) to this emirate.

Courage purchased John Smith's in 1970 for £ 40 million (£ in adjusted for inflation ), by which time the company owned some 1, 800 public houses, hotels and freehold clubs spread throughout Yorkshire, Lancashire, Derbyshire, County Durham, Cheshire, Lincolnshire,

Others pointed out that the decision only affected leasehold land and not the overwhelming majority of Australia which is freehold land held under “ fee simple ”.

As a result, a settlement was achieved by which Northern Rhodesia became a protectorate under the British government, with its administrative machinery taken over by the Colonial Office, while the British South Africa Company retained extensive areas of freehold property and the protectorate's mineral rights.

He also provided Wilkes with the freehold qualification which enabled him to stand for Middlesex in the famous election of 1768.

In June 2003 she was involved in a landmark case which allowed for the possibility that the Maori Land Court could issue freehold title over the foreshore and seabed.

6, c. 2 ), which amended and re-enacted the 1430 law to make clear that the resident of a county had to have a forty shilling freehold in that county to be a voter there.

Crucially, CPFC 2010 also secured the freehold of the ground, the consortium paying tribute to a fans ' campaign which helped pressure Lloyds bank into selling the ground back to the club.

The Racecourse is situated on the Mold Road, which is the main road heading into Wrexham, and is opposite the residential area of Maesgwyn, next to Glyndŵr University ; who owns the freehold to the stadium and have added their name to it.

The advantages of this crop were quickly recognized by the Baganda chiefs who had newly acquired freehold estates, which came to be known as mailo land because they were measured in square miles.

Manager of the South London Working Men's College in 1868, William Rossiter, purchased the freehold of Portland House on which the College now stands in 1889.

It was announced in 2008 that Winner intended to leave his house as a museum, but discussions with Kensington and Chelsea council apparently stalled after they were unable to meet the £ 15 million cost of purchasing the freehold of the property, which expires in 2046.

He purchased the freehold of six houses in what is now Kensington Church Street, the annual rental of which provided income for the school.

The word " Hill " was added by land developer John Knipe to spruik his new estate, the first subdivision of which, being 64 freehold properties, was auctioned by Knipe, George and Co. on 18 September 1871.