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Webster 1913 Edition

Copyhold

Cop′y-holdˊ

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Noun.
(Eng. Law)
(a)
A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord’s court.
Blackstone.
(b)
Land held in copyhold.
Milton.
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Copyholds
do not exist in the United States.

Webster 1828 Edition

Copyhold

COPYHOLD

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Noun.
In England, a tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant hath nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lords court.

Definition 2024

copyhold

copyhold

English

Noun

copyhold ‎(countable and uncountable, plural copyholds)

  1. A former form of tenure in which the title deeds were a copy of the manorial roll
    • 1990, John Updike, Rabbit at Rest,
      "[...]this quiz with all the strange old terms in it, curtilage and messuage and socage and fee simple and fee tail and feoffee and copyhold and customary freehold and mortmain and devises and lex loci rei sitae."

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