单词 | copyhold |
释义 | copyholdn. Law. 1. a. A kind of tenure in England of ancient origin: tenure of lands being parcel of a manor, ‘at the will of the lord according to the custom of the manor’, by copy of the manorial court-roll (see copy n. 5). (By Part V of the Law of Property Act 1922, all copyhold land was enfranchised.) ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > copyhold copyhold1483 copy1577 copyholding1887 1483 Act 1 Rich. III c. 4 §1 Lands and Tenements holden by Custom of Manor, commonly called Copyhold. 1493 Newminster Cartul. (1878) 195 Which ye said Alexandr' helde be copy holde of ye riall & noble Raufe Erle off Westmorlande. 1551 R. Crowley Pleasure & Payne sig. Cviiv Let the pore man haue and enioye The house he had by Copyeholde. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 84 Copyhold is a tenure for which the Tenaunt hath nothing to shew but the copies of the Rolles made by the Steward of his Lords Court. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1778) I. 218 The queen is of ability to purchase lands, and to convey them, to make leases, to grant copyholds, and do other acts of ownership, without the concurrence of her lord. 1848 J. J. S. Wharton Law Lexicon 139/2 Copyhold, a base tenure founded upon immemorial custom and usage..Because this tenure derives its whole force from custom, the lands must have been demisable by copy of court roll from time immemorial..No copyhold estate can..be created at the present day. 1875 H. J. S. Maine Lect. Early Hist. Inst. i. 7 A rule of which there are plain traces in our English law of copyhold. b. figurative. ΚΠ 1641 J. Milton Of Reformation 74 Set free..from the meere vassalage and Copy-hold of the Clergie. a1658 J. Cleveland Clievelandi Vindiciæ (1677) 69 T' enjoy a Copyhold of Victory. a1713 T. Ellwood Hist. Life (1765) 17 What he said did touch..my Father's (religious) Copy-hold, as the Phrase is. 2. An estate held by this tenure; a copyhold estate. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > by copyhold copyholda1529 a1529 J. Skelton Against Scottes 125, in Wks. (1843) I. 186 Ye bare yourselfe somwhat to bold, Therfore ye lost your copyehold. a1618 W. Raleigh Maxims of State (1651) 58 To provide that the richer men place in their Farms and Coppie~holds, such decayed Citizens. 1839 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire (ed. 2) II. iv. iv. 155 The lord of a manor, in which there are copyholds,..holds a distinct court for that species of tenants, for the purpose both of determining pleas of land between them and for the alienation of their copyholds. 1884 W. E. Gladstone in Standard 29 Feb. 2/5 By the voter in respect to property I mean the man who votes in respect to freehold, copyhold, or leasehold. 3. attributive or adj. Held by copyhold; relating to or of the nature of copyhold. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [adjective] > copyhold copy1502 copyhold1511 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [adjective] > held in copyhold copy1502 copyhold1511 1511–12 Act 3 Hen. VIII c. 18 Custumarye and Copie~holders tenauntes of eny Copyeholde londes holden at wylle of the Lorde. 1527 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1884) V. 235 All my landes, as well copiehold as freehold. 1677 A. Yarranton England's Improvem. 27 The Mannor of Taunton Dean in Somersetshire is..but a Copy-hold Mannor. 1765 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. (1778) Introd. §3. 75 The special and particular customs of manors..which bind all the copyhold and customary tenants that hold of the said manors. 1837 J. R. McCulloch Statist. Acct. Brit. Empire I. iii. i. 446 Copyhold estates are held of a subject as part of a royalty, honour, or manor, and are liable to fines on account of deaths, transfers, and other such circumstances, according to the customs of the royalty, honour, or manor of which they form a part. 1875 K. E. Digby Introd. Hist. Law Real Prop. v. 217 Land held by copyhold tenure is always parcel of, and included in, a manor. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1483 |
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