in general, the state or quality of being free. See LIBERTY.

Freedom of a Corporation, the right of enjoying all the privileges and immunities belonging to it. See CORPORATION.

The freedom of cities, and other corporations, is regularly obtained by serving an apprenticeship; but it is also purchased with money, and sometimes conferred by way of compliment.

Freedom of Conscience. See TOLERATION.

Freedom of the Will, that power or faculty of the mind, whereby it is capable of acting or not acting, choosing or rejecting whatever it judges proper. Of this every man must be sensible, who finds in himself a power to begin or forbear, continue or end several actions, barely by a thought or preference of the mind.