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Copyholder
Copyholder Cop"y*hold`er, n. 1. (Eng. Law) One possessed of land in copyhold. 2. (print.) (a) A device for holding copy for a compositor. (b) One who reads copy to a proof reader.
Enfranchisement of copyhold
Enfranchisement En*fran"chise*ment, n. 1. Releasing from slavery or custody. --Shak. 2. Admission to the freedom of a corporation or body politic; investiture with the privileges of free citizens. Enfranchisement of copyhold (Eng. Law), the conversion of a copyhold estate into a freehold. --Mozley & W.

Meaning of Copyhold from wikipedia

- Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is...
- A copyholder is a device that holds the hand written or printed material being typed by a copy typist. They were used in the past with typewriters and...
- tenure which may be described as a variety of copyhold. It is also termed privileged copyhold or copyhold of frank tenure. It is a tenure by copy of manorial...
- also freehold estates not of inheritance, such as an estate for life and copyhold was promoted into freehold by the Act. All estates can be subject to payments...
- and Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924, converting copyhold to fee simple. Although copyhold was abolished, the title of Lord of the Manor remains...
- restricted to clerics. Non-freehold (fixed-term & non-hereditable): by copyhold, where the duties and rights were tailored to the requirements of the lord...
- manor Freeholders or yeomanry. Proprietors of large and small properties Copyholders. Tenant farmers Cottagers/cottar Squatters Farm servants living in their...
- Copyholds were not devisable before 1815, but were usually surrendered to the use of the will of the copyhold tenant; the Disposition of Copyhold Estates...
- Defines the owner's rights for rent charges that survive the repeal of the Copyhold Act 1894. Lists specific provisions that survive the repeals of the Sunday...
- barony Feudal baron Knight's fee Knight-service Baronage Peerage Serjeanty Copyhold Freehold Gavelkind Customary freehold Landed gentry Peerages in the United...