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Definition of Copyholders
1. copyholder [n] - See also: copyholder
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copyholders
Literary usage of Copyholders
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise, Henry Hopley White (1835)
"Suit of court is another service to which all copyholders are bound ; for otherwise,
... In many manors copyholders are also liable, by particular custom, ..."
2. A Treatise on Commons and Wastelands: With Special Reference to the Law of by Charles Isaac Elton (1868)
"APPLICATION OF THE STATUTE OF MERTON TO copyholders. A re copyholders within the
statutes of approvement— Not denied until recently—Lord's power not derived ..."
3. A Treatise on Copyholds: Customary Freeholds, Ancient Demesne, and the by John Scriven (1833)
"Yet it must not be supposed that all copyholders can prescribe against their lord.
In the case of Cage & Dod (c), the court said that a copyholder for life ..."
4. A Treatise on Copyhold, Customary Freehold, and Ancient Demesne Tenure: With by Henry Stalman, John Scriven (1846)
"But a copyholder of inheritance, the author apprehends, cannot prescribe to have
common in exclusion of the lord, though a prescription for copyholders to ..."
5. The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century by Richard Henry Tawney (1912)
"If this problem is the most difficult it is also one of the most important.
As far as can be calculated, the copyholders far exceeded in number ..."
6. The Origin and Growth of the English Constitution: An Historical Treatise by Hannis Taylor (1898)
"As an additional inducement to the counties, he proposed to enlarge their
constituencies by the addition of copyholders to the freeholders. ..."
7. English Economic History: Select Documents edited by Alfred Edward Bland (1919)
"Most humbly shewing : That your poor subjects have time out of mind been copyholders
of lands of inheritance to them and their heirs for ever of the manor ..."
8. An Elementary Treatise on Estates: With Preliminary Observation of the ...by Richard Preston by Richard Preston (1828)
"Hence the very nice and accurate distinction taken by Mr. Justice Blackstone,
when he remarks, " that some copyholders have a freehold interest, ..."
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