NOUN
- a medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services
How To Use copyhold In A Sentence
- By the later 19th century historians writing of England from a European perspective often saw peasants as small freeholders, copyholders, and even farmers.
- Where a will is made be - tween the making tenant to a praecipe and fuffering a recovery thereon, or between the furrender and admittance to a copyhold, it is good, as the fub - fequent a&s rejate to the prior, SeL nvyn v, Selwjn, 2 Bur. Reports of cases adjudged in the Court of King's bench; with some special cases in the courts of Chancery, Common pleas and Exchequer, alphabetically digest under proper heads;
- Also features an in-line copyholder so you can position documents for easy, comfortable viewing.
- It is known to have been held by the Hathaway family from at least 1543, as part of copyhold property granted then to John Hathaway.
- On the opposite side of the room was a large, massively-constructed copying camera, the front of which, carrying the lens, was fixed, and an easel or copyholder travelled on parallel guides towards, or away, from it, on a long stand. The Red Thumb Mark
- By the 13th century the pattern was beginning to unravel as more and more villeins obtained their freedom and became copyholders.
- These are the documents (L&M Companion) which detailed the surrender of the use of the land to Robert Pepys as copyholder and the terms on which it was so surrendered.
- Every petty farmer and tenant and copyholder and peasant below him depends on my favor. The White Queen
- This doc - trine is often resorted to in the case of grants of copyholds, where die son of a grantee is a-nominee. The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, A Commentary Upon Littleton: Not ...
- Save space on your desk by securely suspending this copyholder from your partition or the edge of your desk.
