How To Use Copyhold In A Sentence
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By the later 19th century historians writing of England from a European perspective often saw peasants as small freeholders, copyholders, and even farmers.
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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;
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Also features an in-line copyholder so you can position documents for easy, comfortable viewing.
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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.
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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
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By the 13th century the pattern was beginning to unravel as more and more villeins obtained their freedom and became copyholders.
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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.
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Every petty farmer and tenant and copyholder and peasant below him depends on my favor.
The White Queen
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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 ...
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Tenants of farms and copyholders were evicted by business-minded landlords.
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Only in Denmark, where there was equally no serfdom, was there a sale of unprofitable copyhold lands by landowners from the 1780s, which gave rise to a class of 60,000 large tenant-farmers who came to form the backbone of the country.
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No doubt many of the sub-tenants, even where they held originally by base and uncertain services and at the will of their superior, came in time, like the English copyholder, to have a generally-recognized right to the permanent possession of their holdings, while custom tended to fix the character and quantity of their services.
Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885
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Parliament, and a possessor of rights on the common both as a freeholder and a copyholder, was induced to take action in his own name and as a representative of other claimants of common rights.
An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England
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In 1732 a statute set a property-owning minimum at an (in the circumstances) relatively modest level: the would-be justice had to hold property by freehold, copyhold, or a lease for lives worth £100 a year.
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Her brother Bartholomew succeeded to his father's copyhold when their mother died, in 1599.
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The new sturdy plastic, multi-use computer copyholder is also a portable clipboard.
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He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.
The Vision Splendid
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The Canadian censitaire had a written title-deed which stated explicitly the dues and services he was bound to give his seigneur; the copyholder had nothing of the kind.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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Now the English copyholder held his land subject to the customs of the manor; his dues and services were fixed by local custom both as regards their nature and amount.
The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism
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We use the word _fine_ in three senses: first, as a punishment and penalty; secondly, as a formal means of cutting off by one form the ties of another form, which we call levying a fine; and, thirdly, we use the word to signify a sum of money payable upon renewal of a lease or copyhold.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 11 (of 12)
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To carry the map of an ungotten estate in your pocket is a poor sort of copyhold.
Daniel Deronda
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He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.
The Vision Splendid
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Copyholders being thus considered as slaves, were, notwithstanding their possessions, deemed unworthy of the franchise; and from this refinement, on the arbitrary principles of the Normans, every copyholder was deprived of a vote, unless he could claim it by some other tenure.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832
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In short, in Ireland the ownership is dual: the landlord is merely the lord of a quasi-copyhold manor, consisting of numerous small tenements held by quasi-copyholders who, so long as they pay what may be called the manorial rents, and fulfil the manorial conditions, regard themselves as independent owners of their holdings.
Handbook of Home Rule Being articles on the Irish question
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Finally, a rarer due, but the most burdensome of all, is that of acapte ou de plaid-a-merci, which is a double rent, or a year's yield of fruits, payable as well on the death of the seignior as on that of the copyholder.
The Ancient Regime
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Broadly, over half of English tenants held their land by copyhold, that is by customary tenures involving low rents.
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Progne how her brother-in-law Tereus had by force handselled her copyhold, and then cut out her tongue that she might not (as women will) tell tales.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
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I use the word sale for simplicity although, being copyhold, the land was in fact surrendered to the Lord of the Manor by the vendors and then re-granted by him to the purchasers.
