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copyhold Definition

copy·hold (-hōld′)

noun

Eng. Law tenure of property less than a freehold, proved by a written transcript or record in the rolls of a manorial court
copyhold Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • hold: An ancestor Stephen Tutt Hodd held the copyholds of these properties.

Converse of subject

  • hold: The house was held by copyhold of the Manor and Honor of Hampton Court, as were all the properties in the area.

Modifies a noun

  • messuage: Free and copyhold messuages along the edge of the waste where it adjoined the cultivated fields suggest that the road pre-dated the fields.
  • tenement: It was evidently distinct from the copyhold tenement called Fosters.
  • tenure: The 1922 Law of Property Act finally abolished copyhold tenure.
  • estate: The farm originated in a copyhold estate built up by a branch of the Chalkhill family in the 15th century.
  • tenant: I. List of copyhold tenants in the manor of Bisley, with the amount of their fines.
  • land: To draw out a grant to Edward Lord Bruce of Kinloss, of the copyhold lands of Wm.