LIBERUM TENEMENTUM, pleading. The name of a plea in an action of trespass,
by which the defendant claims the locus in quo to be his soil and freehold,
or the soil and freehold of a third person, by whose command he entered. 2
Salk. 453; 7 T. R. 355; 1 Saund. 299, b, note.
LIBERUM TENEMENTUM, estate. The same as, freehold, (q.v.) or frank
tenement. 2 Bouv. Inst. n. 1690.