Allodial land, or allodium, is literally land which has no lord. The holder of allodial land would owe no obligations, as owner of the land, to anyone else.
Some systems of law, for example English law, do not permit any land to be allodial, all land ultimately being held from the Crown, whereas others, such as Scottish law do permit this.
Allodial property rights were claimed by the people of colonial America after the Declaration of Independence and recognized by the States after the Revolutionary War. Once this occurred there was no real distinction between land held in fee simple and allodial land, and the two terms are used interchangeably in legal systems which have abolished the notion of a Lord. In these situations, Allodial land ownership may be contrasted to feudalland ownership.
What is "allodial?" The 1828 dictionary, which is close to the time of the writing of the Wisconsin Constitution defines ‘allodial’ as "pertaining to allodium." And how is allodium defined?
In England there is no allodial land, all land being held by the king; but in the United States most lands are allodial." There it is. The land does not belong to the State (its not the king's) but to the property owner, to families, as God intended.
All land was declared allodial in our Wisconsin Constitution prior to any property tax being brought upon our land.
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