-FRE 
We ate at our oe to do good or evil, to be vittuovs or 
Vicious. 
s, if: I offer my friend a horfe; or a — and giv ve him 
his pares of the twa, he i is _~ to have a liberty of contra- 
oe over the horfe and li 
the: lopeace charge this as. a faulty or anayehal 
oats becaufe one ember of the — is contained 
a. w sage er is 
e 
ref] 
af co pone a though not 
for my friend to take the horfe, or the got it is alfo free 
for him fe let them both alone: but he be free to 
ne one of them, without a freedom of *chuding which to 
ta 
; Yet the diftinGtion is of fome ufe; as it, intimates, that 
the will is not always poflefled of both kinds of freedom, cand 
that. the matter or fubjeGt of the two is different. 
The will, though it fhould be allowed to be free, has not 
a liberty of contrariety: thus, any evident truth ‘being 
propofed to . eae é.gr. that whole is A Ses 
than a part, though we may have a power of not affent- 
ing thereto, by diverting oe attention to imei elfe, 
we have not a pow diffenting from that propo- 
fic. and judging that ihe wk is not greater. than’ tke 
art. 
“Hence moralifts oo oo digs with ee to the 
upreme- good, man has a lib adiction, in- 
afmach as he may Paltaa from the Pe or Saari thereof ; 
eee a s nota amides of cae whereby to hat te 
contradi@ion with refpect toa Sbiecte the fupreme 
good. itfelf; yet the freedom of contrafiety is reftrained to 
ket par iculars, which either are, or e good ; 
od. 
gv Freevom of Thinking. See Dut 
FREEHOLD, in Sree a pot | town of Ameria 
in Monmouth county, Ne au erley ; 15 miles W. of Shrew! 
bury, and 2 ~b f New Brunfwick.. ‘Freehold 
has an; academy, snd i in oe contained. 3785 inhabit- 
gts. . 
. Freenorp, Upper, a townthip of New Jerfey, in Mon- 
mouth’ county, W-. of Freehold. In 1790, it contained 3442 
jnha ean 
EB of town in Green county, New York, 
containing at 2 pinhebenes 
Fre eolideae Tenement, liberum tenementum, in Law, 
3 land, or on ment, which a man ce in fee-fimple, 
fee-tail, or for a of life. i AS Tie Cy Os 
of freehold is defined by J ang n(e. se . 
— of a he foil by a free t. G 
Stu d.-b. 2.) tells i ee 6s ne a tiling of the land 
is called i in mn the ee of England the frank tenement or free- 
hold.’”?. Such eftate, therefore, and no other, as r 
actual pofleffion’ of the land is, legally peaking f 
which aétual Pe by can by the courfe of 
shall AL pale it tchaveth to 
eftates, of inheritanceyand slate for lle pear not; by com- 
Vou. XV. 
-town, by the n 
FRE 
mon law, be conveyed _ livery of feifin, thefe are pro-. 
erly eftates of freehold ‘as no other eftates-were con- - 
yeyed with the fame eae, therefore no others are _Pro- 
perly- freehold eftates e Estate 
Freehold is of two ae in deed, andin law, ‘The fir 
is the real poffeffion of land’ or tenement in fee, fee-tail, or 
n has.to fuch land or 
tenement before his entry or fe ae 
€ dy b ommon nnot commepge in 
futuro, but it muft take effe& tpt, o- in poffeffion, 
reverfion, or remainder. (5 R hatever is part of 
the mere goes to the heir ; ee as fixed thereto, as 
glafs window : by oi a ‘cannot be removed by’ tenants, 
nor taken j in diftrefs for or in cage Ce oO man: 
fhall be diffeifed of ie Freehold by ftat.. Magna Charta, 
t by judgment of his peers, or - according to the 
laws of the Jand: nor fhallany ditftrain freeholders to anfwer 
for their freehold, in any thing Senge the fame, sla 
the king’s writ.. (Stat. 52 Hen. 22.) Freeh 
eftates of certain ine are require by fatutes to quality 
jurors, ele€tors of the knights of the hire in parliament, 
&e. 
For the method of finding ie = of freehold eflates, 
fee oo and Lirr-ANnn rs. 
FREE is pei tended to fuch offices as a man 
holds in fee, 0 ife. 
Fics REI re is alfo fometimes’ taken i in oppofition t to ville. 
mbard cbferes, that land, in ie Saxons? time, was dif- 
Aetna into bockland, % e. = Iden by book, .or writing 5 : 
and ey ae held without writing. 
The former, he fays, was ed on far better condition, and: 
by the ie fort of tenants, as noblemen and gentlemen ;. 
and being fuch as we now call freehold ; the bas was motte 
ly in pofleffion of oo we the fame with what we 
now call “ at the will of the 
nthe ancient laws of Scotland, freeholders are called 
milites, knights. In Reg. Judicial, it is e ae refle d, that he 
who. holds land upon: an execution- o atute-mer: 
chant, until he hath fatisfied the debt, « ee ut liberum 
tenementum fibi et affignatis fuis ; ay - the fame of a te~ 
= ‘per elegit ; the me ramen of w feems to.be, not 
t fuch tenants are freeholders, car as frecholders. for 
the Eines till they have nieeived profits to the value of their 
aR NG a Ming, is paying the fir ft difh aE: ore ob- 
tained cheer to the farmer of the king’s dues in the King’: 8 
e 
FREE ; Capx, in he a yo a cape on the eaft 
coatt of Newfoundland Ny lat. 49° 354. We ‘long. 53° 
FREE EMONT, a cape oni thenorth coat of the ifland of 
Jerfey 5. 5'miles N.-of St. Helier 
FREEPORT, pyr reaes of Recent in Canberiend 
county, Maine, at the head of Cafco bay ; adjoining to 
Durham on the N.E. and to North Yarmouth on the 8.W. 
o miles of oe and 140 of Bofton : 
it was incor one in 1789, andc ontains I 330 in nha 
A mine of filver and lead, it is faid, _has heen difcovered i 
this ne : 
FREETOWN, a ehving townhhip i in Briftol : county, 
Maffachufets, incorporate 1683, containing: ° 2535 inha-_ 
bitants, and lying’ 45 miles fSutherl of Bofton. The fouth- 
ern part of this 7 town has: ‘tee nad ac da intoa new 
loeal 
FREEWILL’s ISLanps, es {mall iflands i in the Eat 
Indian fea, difeovered by- _ Carteret in the year 1767 : 
called 
bitanes. os 
