| They rearranged their estates to create larger tenant farms on rack rents, with a decline in small yeomen farmers with customary tenure or freeholds. |
| City analysts believe that Coleman could partly finance any offer by selling some of the group's valuable freeholds and then leasing back the stores. |
| Had they ever been upon the ground where their freeholds lay? |
| Some of the freeholds were very valuable and some of the leaseholds were virtually worthless tenancies of shop-like premises occupied by the Appellant's branches. |
| Free ownership, the allodium, even under the form of small freeholds, still existed by way of exception in many parts. |
| The other reason is that York is an increasingly popular shopping centre and freeholds don't come up that often. |
