Definition of copyhold in English:
copyhold
noun ˈkɒpɪhəʊldˈkɑpiˌhoʊld
mass nounBritish historical Tenure of land based on manorial records.
Hogarth acquired the copyhold of a red brick villa
as modifier freehold and copyhold land
Example sentencesExamples
- Broadly, over half of English tenants held their land by copyhold, that is by customary tenures involving low rents.
- I use the word sale for simplicity although, being copyhold, the land was in fact surrendered to the Lord of the Manor by the vendors and then re-granted by him to the purchasers.
- It is known to have been held by the Hathaway family from at least 1543, as part of copyhold property granted then to John Hathaway.
- Only in Denmark, where there was equally no serfdom, was there a sale of unprofitable copyhold lands by landowners from the 1780s, which gave rise to a class of 60,000 large tenant-farmers who came to form the backbone of the country.
- In 1732 a statute set a property-owning minimum at an (in the circumstances) relatively modest level: the would-be justice had to hold property by freehold, copyhold, or a lease for lives worth £100 a year.
Definition of copyhold in US English:
copyhold
nounˈkäpēˌhōldˈkɑpiˌhoʊld
British historical Tenure of land based on manorial records.
Hogarth acquired the copyhold of a red brick villa
as modifier freehold and copyhold land
Example sentencesExamples
- It is known to have been held by the Hathaway family from at least 1543, as part of copyhold property granted then to John Hathaway.
- Broadly, over half of English tenants held their land by copyhold, that is by customary tenures involving low rents.
- Only in Denmark, where there was equally no serfdom, was there a sale of unprofitable copyhold lands by landowners from the 1780s, which gave rise to a class of 60,000 large tenant-farmers who came to form the backbone of the country.
- In 1732 a statute set a property-owning minimum at an (in the circumstances) relatively modest level: the would-be justice had to hold property by freehold, copyhold, or a lease for lives worth £100 a year.
- I use the word sale for simplicity although, being copyhold, the land was in fact surrendered to the Lord of the Manor by the vendors and then re-granted by him to the purchasers.