"Allodially" Quotes from Famous Books
... lands allodially, or for every man to have been the sovereign lord and proprietor of the ground he occupied, would have constituted a government, too nearly like a commonwealth.—They were contented, therefore, to hold their lands of their King, as their sovereign lord, and to him they were ... — A Collection of State-Papers, Relative to the First Acknowledgment of the Sovereignty of the United States of America • John Adams |