copyhold

Two years later there was a serious riot against the increase of copyhold.

In the country at large copyhold was by far the most common form of customary tenure.

At the same time, ownership of the land was changed in a way where freehold replaced copyhold.

These were recorded in the court rolls as the "copyhold" for this type of tenant.

He would be given land (copyhold or sometimes freehold) by his lord for services well rendered.

This was recorded in the court roll and formed the new 'copyhold' for the purchaser.

The Wares' copyhold was in a parcel also occupied by some tenants at will.

The non-free tenures are to a certain extent represented by copyhold.

The widow's right to a copyhold.

It developed into the more secure "copyhold tenure", where the terms were set out in an entry on the manorial roll.

In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage.

In 1730, he took copyhold tenure of the land next to the 1672 cottage off East End Lane.

Access to the up main and up local lines at Copyhold Junction has been severed.

The mill was part freehold and part copyhold.

For the manorial law relating to heriots, see copyhold.

After elaborate investigations, he convinced himself that the lord's rights had in many instances been trespassed upon by the copyhold tenants.

By around 1400 serfdom was virtually extinct in England, replaced by the form of tenure called copyhold.

Copyholds may be extinguished by the union of the copyhold and the freehold in the same person.

Customary freehold is in English law a species of tenure which may be described as a variety of copyhold.

It is, in fact, only a superior kind of copyhold, and the freehold is in the lord.

Two main kinds of copyhold tenure developed:

In the 19th century, a total of 161 farms and 242 other building were sold when the copyhold farms came into private ownership.

He gave readings on the law of copyhold at Furnivall's Inn which were published in 1562.

Tenure of villeinage (which preceded copyhold).

The ecclesiastic system of copyhold, whereby land was leased to tenants for terms as short as seven years, prevailed throughout the manor.