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.
Law) The act of giving possession of a copyhold estate.
There can be no question as to the importance of such a view; it contains, as it were, the germ of copyhold tenure[114].
The development of copyholdbelongs to the later period, copyhold being mostly a rent-paying servile tenure.
One of the reasons of later confusion must be looked for in the fact that the pure villain holdings gradually got to be recognised at law as copyhold or base customary tenures.
The very fact of copyhold thus gaining on villain socage may have pushed this last on towards freehold.
And if we speak of the presentment of offences through the representatives of townships, as of the practice of communal accusation, even so we have to call the title by which copyhold tenure is created a claim based on communal testimony.
Hired labourers and farmers take the place of villains, and the villain's holding is turned into a copyhold and protected by law.
But copyhold is necessarily transferred in court, while freehold is not.
Such was the rise of the copyholdestate of modern times.
I may say at once that I fail to see any connexion between copyhold tenure and any express agreements between lord and villain.
One may reasonably ask why a person sending a cow to the open fields or to the waste from a freehold tenement can claim common appendant, and his neighbour sending a cow to the same fields from a copyhold has only common appurtenant.
The Law - Any sale of land or lease or estate of freehold or copyholdshall be in writing and signed.
The common law courts followed the lead of the Chancery and held that copyhold land could be inherited as was land at common law.
A copyholder rented land from a lord for a period of years or lives, usually three lives including that of the widow, and paid a substantial amount whenever the copyhold came up for renewal.
Footnote 1: Frank Bank or Free bench are copyhold lands which the wife, being married a spinster, had after her husband's death for dower.
The official notice (formerly required to be given in court) of the surrender of a copyhold estate.
Law), a widow's right in the copyhold lands of her husband, corresponding to dower in freeholds.
The term customary freeholds is applied to a kind of copyhold tenure in the north of England, viz.
If the husband surrenders his copyhold and the surrenderee is admitted, or if he contracts for a sale, it will defeat the widow's freebench.
But follow my counsel, and Cumnor Place shall be thy copyhold yet.
Ay, in very truth, Anthony, or there comes no copyhold in thy way," replied his inflexible associate.
Battell, a small part of the freehold and copyhold lands in Robertsbridge Somersham, with the Soke, the copyhold lands in Alconbury, with Weston Huntingdonshire.
Any sale of land or lease or estate of freehold or copyhold shall be in writing and signed.
The vicarage of Penniston did not go along with the rectory, but with the copyhold rents, and was part of a large purchase made by Ralph Bosville, Esq.
It is also termed privileged copyhold or copyhold of frank tenure.
All who have at any time owned or purchased what is known as copyhold land might be supposed to know something of the nature of the title on which such land is held.
It may be you will say, If Tythe be taken from the Priests and Impropriators, and Copyhold Services from Lords of Manors, how shall they be provided for again; for is it not unrighteous to take their estates from them?
His copyhold was seized by the lord as forfeited, but afterwards recovered, viz.
In October, 1556, he became the owner of two copyhold estates, one of them consisting of a house with a garden and a croft attached to it, the other of a house and garden.
In September following, a copyhold house in Walker-street, near New Place, was surrendered to him by Walter Getley.
Coming to the Memorandum of 1608, it is evident a serious difficulty had arisen with the Willenhall lands held under copyhold tenure, and which were probably dealt with by the same Commission.
Lands held by Copyhold tenure are usually subject to fealty to the Lord of the Manor, and this was doubtless customary in Stowheath.
Dean the jurisdiction of a Court Leet, and a copyhold Court Baron, to be called the Deanery Court of Wolverhampton.
The Copyhold Act 1894 deals both with compulsory and with voluntary enfranchisement.
The life of copyhold assurance, it is said, is custom.
Hence it appears that the existence of copyhold tenures may sometimes be traced by the total absence of timber from such lands, while on freehold lands it grows in abundance.
When copyhold land is conveyed from one person to another, it is surrendered by the owner to the lord, who by his payment of the customary fine makes a new grant of it to the purchaser.
Copyhold is necessarily parcel of a manor, and the freehold is said to be in the lord of the manor.
In some instances copyhold for lives alone is recognized, and in such cases the lord of the manor may ultimately, when all the lives have dropped, get back the land into his own hands.
Copyhold had long been established in practice before it was formally recognized by the law.
The inconvenience caused by these feudal incidents of the tenure led to a series of statutes, having for their object the conversion of copyholdinto freehold.
A species of tenure resembling copyhold is what is known as customary freehold.
Every mortgage of copyhold estate in the land enfranchised becomes a mortgage of the freehold, though subject to the priority of the rent charge paid in compensation under the act.
The feudal obligations attaching to copyhold tenure have been found to cause much inconvenience to the tenants, while they are of no great value to the lord.
The Copyhold Act 1852 went further, and for the first time introduced the principle of compulsory enfranchisement on the part of either party.
One of these troopers, an envious man, hearing that I was praemunired, asked me what estate I had, and whether it was copyhold or free land.
We have seen that in the sixteenth century custom still ruled the payments made by most of the copyhold tenants.
On some manors, again, the copyhold tenants have enclosed land and hold much in severalty; on others nearly all of it lies in the open fields.
They were the only authority which could prevent a landlord from asserting his claims to a common or to a copyhold by means which the poorer classes found it impossible to resist.
From a legal point of view the great feature of the period is the struggle between copyhold and leasehold, and the ground gained by the latter.
Again, it is not always easy to draw a line between copyhold and leasehold.
Finally, the difficult question of the security of copyhold tenants as against the landlords who desired to evict them seems to have been put in the right perspective by the evidence which Dr.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copyhold" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
