He marvelled what people could have been thinking about in the past to invent such precarious tenures as these; still more, what could have induced his ancestors at Hintock, and other village people, to exchange their old copyholds for life-leases. ❋ Unknown (2006)
He did not really require it, but constitutionally hated these tiny copyholds and leaseholds and freeholds, which made islands of independence in the fair, smooth ocean of his estates. ❋ Unknown (2006)
In the course of this session Pitt introduced a bill for encouraging the growth of timber for the navy, and improving the royal revenue raising out of the New Forest, by the sale of certain parts, and the enfranchisement of copyholds. ❋ Edward Farr (N/A)
They were ordinary leases for three lives, which a member of the South family, some fifty years before this time, had accepted of the lord of the manor in lieu of certain copyholds and other rights, in consideration of having the dilapidated houses rebuilt by said lord. ❋ Thomas Hardy (1884)
That all the copyholds and customary messuages, lands, and tenements within the said manor are, and have been time out of mind, copyholds of inheritance, demised and demisable to the copyholders or customary tenants thereof, and their heirs in fee simple by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the said manor. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
That if any copyholder or customary tenant of the said manor die, and leave his heir within the age of fourteen years, that then the nearest of kin and farthest from the land, have had, and ought to have the guardianship and custody of the body of such heir and his copyholds, held of that manor, so that at the next Court or ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
That it is lawful for any of the copyholders or customary tenants of the said manor, to let her, his, or their copyholds for one year, but not for any longer term, without a licence from the lord of the said manor. ❋ Charlotte Mary Yonge (1862)
The tribal system of property in common was set aside, and the communal holdings of the tribesmen turned into the copyholds of English law. ❋ John Richard Green (1860)
The 'island' belonged to the Catholic priesthood of the place, who still exercise rights over it similar to those of the 'lords' in cases of English copyholds, and who obtain an annual revenue of some ❋ Unknown (1860)
Under the lords of manors, again, small freeholds and copyholds were held of various extent, often forty shilling and twenty shilling value, tenanted by peasant occupiers, who thus, on their own land, lived as free Englishmen, maintaining by their own free labour themselves and their families. ❋ James Anthony Froude (1856)
By successive steps, however, the origin of all landed property within the hundred, some later copyholds excepted, is to be traced to voluntary concessions from the Lacies, or their successors of the house of ❋ John Roby (1821)
I rather conjecture it has arisen from the sale of some copyholds of mine in Norfolk. ❋ George Gordon Byron Byron (1806)
Perkins on his bond 1600_l_., the Hertfordshire copyholds may perhaps be worth 1000_l_., and where is the rest to spring from? ❋ Hester Lynch Piozzi (1781)
The powerful blast destroyed their ancient freehold tenures, reducing them into wretched copyholds: and to the disgrace of succeeding ages, many of them retain this mark of ❋ William Hutton (1769)
-- For the original of copyholds, see Bracton, Lib. ❋ Edmund Burke (1763)
This doc - trine is often resorted to in the case of grants of copyholds, where die son of a grantee is a-nominee. ❋ Unknown (1812)
Bond of indemnity, and for peaceable enjoy - ment on furrendering of copyholds* 2 frmu ❋ Bird, James Barry (1796)
