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copyhold
/ ˈɒɪˌəʊ /
noun
- a tenure less than freehold of land in England evidenced by a copy of the Court roll
- land held in this way
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Acknowledgment money, in some parts of England, a sum paid by copyhold tenants, on the death of their landlords, as an acknowledgment of their new lords.
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But copyhold is necessarily transferred in court, while freehold is not.
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It is also termed privileged copyhold or copyhold of frank tenure.
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Nominee, nom-in-ē′, n. one who is nominated by another: one on whose life an annuity or lease depends: one to whom the holder of a copyhold estate surrenders his interest.
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This document was sealed with red wax, and endorsed:—“Sentence on a hog, executed by justice, brought into the copyhold of Clermont, and strangled on a gibbet at Avin.”
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