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单词 copyhold
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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.
 
 
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