freehold vs homestead

freehold

verb
  • To dispense property in this way. 

adj
  • Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat. 

noun
  • Real property held by a tenure of this type. 

  • Freehold tenure. 

homestead

verb
  • To acquire or settle on land as a homestead. 

noun
  • A house together with surrounding land and buildings, especially on a farm; the property comprising these. 

  • The place that is one's home. 

  • A parcel of land in the interior of North America, usually 160 acres, that was distributed to settlers from Europe or eastern North America under the Dominion Lands Act of 1870 in Canada or the Homestead Act of 1862 in the United States. 

  • A cluster of several houses occupied by an extended family. 

How often have the words freehold and homestead occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )