Allodial title constitutes ownership of real property (land, buildings, and fixtures) that is independent of any superior landlord.
After the French Revolution allodial title became the norm in France and other civil law countries that were under Napoleonic legal influences.
Allodial lands are the absolute property of their owner and not subject to any rent, service, or acknowledgment to a superior.
[2] However, historian James Holt states that "In Normandy the word alodium, whatever its sense in other parts of the Continent, meant, not land held free of seigneurial services, but land held by hereditary right", and that "alodium and feodum should be given the same meaning in England".
[3] Allodium, meaning "land exempt from feudal duties", is first attested in English-language texts in the 11th-century Domesday Book, but was borrowed from Old Low Franconian *allōd, meaning "full property", and attested in Latin as e.g., alodis, alaudes, in the Salic law (c. A.D. 507–596) and other Germanic laws.