The Canadian censitaire had a written title-deed which stated explicitly the dues and services he was bound to give his seigneur; the copyholder had nothing of the kind.
Now the English copyholder held his land subject to the customs of the manor; his dues and services were fixed by local custom both as regards their nature and amount.
A copyholder cannot commit any waste, either voluntary, by opening mines, cutting down timber or pulling down buildings; or permissive, by neglecting to repair.
A special custom is required to entitle the wife of a copyholder to any interest in her husband's lands on his death intestate.
The rise of the copyholder from a state of uncertainty to certainty of tenure appears to have been very gradual.
A tenant at a quit rent is, to all intents and purposes, a proprietor; a copyholder is not less so than a freeholder.
Custom that copyholder for life may cut down trees pronounced "a void and unreasonable custom and not allowable by law.
Item to the fourth we saye that lords of the mannor have never demanded nor anycopyholder payde any more for their ffyne than one yere's rente of the lande.
Item to the syxth we saye that the copyholder may sell hys underwoode and stocke upp by the roote the same wytheout lycense of the lorde.
A copyholder is a tenant by copy of Court Roll according to the custom of the manor, and this custom is primarily what regulates his rights and obligations.
We shall return to it later in considering how far the copyholder had security of tenure, and enjoyed legal protection against the lord who wished to evict him.
In 1581 it interferes to protect a copyholder who has been kept out of his holding by the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.
But peradventure there may be such a custom for a copyholder of inheritance.
Item to the eytthe we saye that the copyholder may make a grante of hys copyholde for three yeres wythoute the lord's lycense, and the lorde to take nothing for the same.
A copyholder is a tenant at will, though qualified by the addition of the words "by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor.
The problem centres in the question to what extent a copyholder who was threatened with eviction could obtain protection from the courts.
The copyholder and leaseholder were distinguished from the mere tenant-at-will, whose only right was to gather his growing crop when his landlord decided to terminate his tenancy.
Most former electors and every leaseholder and every copyholderwere now excluded.
Other yeomen were those who possessed enough land, as copyholder or leaseholder, to be protected from fluctuations in the amount of the annual harvest, that is, at least 50 acres.
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.
No creation of new copyholds by granting land out of the waste is permissible, save with the consent of the Board of Agriculture; and the act enacts that a valid admittance of a new copyholder may be made without holding a court.
A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
Stein made the Prussian peasant what the English copyholder had become at the accession of Henry VII.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copyholder" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
