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Definition of Copyholder
1. Noun. Mechanical device used in printing; holds the copy for the compositor.
Definition of Copyholder
1. n. One possessed of land in copyhold.
Definition of Copyholder
1. Noun. A person who rented land under the copyhold system. ¹
2. Noun. A device that holds copy in place for typesetting. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Copyholder
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copyholder
Literary usage of Copyholder
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A General Abridgment of Law and Equity: Alphabetically Digested Under Proper by Charles Viner (1792)
"charge out of the manor whereof the copyhold is parcel; the copyholder ...
3; Lord and copyholder for life ; the lord grants a rent out of Supplement Us ..."
2. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise (1827)
"But if a copyholder be ousted, and the lord of the manor disseised, ...
Any conveyance of the land by the lord to the copyholder, for an estate of freehold, ..."
3. The Law of Mines, Quarries, and Minerals by Robert Forster MacSwinney (1907)
"copyholder may work open mines or quarries. New mines or quarries— marl. ...
A copyholder of a manor, having obtained by his grant a grant of the subsoil of ..."
4. An Analytical Digested Index to the Common Law Reports: From the Time of by Thomas Coventry, Samuel Hughes (1832)
"Debt will not.lie in BR on a judgment obtained by a wife of a copyholder for her
dower in ... for where a copyholder claims common in the •oil of another, ..."
5. The Practice of Sales of Real Property, with Precedents of Forms: Comprising by William Hughes (1850)
"THIS INDENTURE, made the day lord of the manor of B , in the county of Devon,
Recital of admittance of copyholder. of , AD 185 , BETWEEN (lord) of, &C., ..."
6. A Digest of the Laws of England by Anthony Hammond, John Comyns (1825)
"And one single copyholder may prescribe to have power to cut trees. R. Cro. El.
353. 4 Co. 32. But a copyholder for life merely cannot cut down and sell; ..."
7. A Treatise on the Principles and Practice of the Action of Ejectment, and by John Adams (1830)
"copyholder. Whilst the ancient practice of the action of ejectment prevailed, it
seems to have been holden, that a copyholder could not maintain an ..."
8. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1888)
"years, agone when Tyler's cattle were taken tenant to Parker the copyholder, who
had committed waste and amerced in the treble damages. ..."
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