Only freeholders and copyholders with the custom of the manor in their favor were secure against eviction.
The number of enclosures grew because copyholders were not successful in obtaining the legal security of tenure.
Copyholders gradually acquired a valuable right in their holdings; their rent became light - less that a shilling an acre.
Enclosures were increasing and Parliament was disinclined to protect copyholders against enclosures, favoring those with rights of ownership.
That land held by copyholders of land who had only a life estate, was withheld from their sons.
It will be easy for me to compass this, although thou mayest think that it will not be easy.
And these are Nynniaw and Peibaw whom God turned into oxen on account of their sins.
And thou shalt not be chargeable for food or raiment for my daughter while thou art seeking these things; and when thou hast compassed all these marvels, thou shalt have my daughter for thy wife.
So they proceeded to the place where was the Owl of Cwm Cawlwyd.
And that oak has since perished, so that now nothing remains of it but the withered stump; and from that day to this I have been here, yet have I never heard of the man for whom you inquire.
And the black man was there, sitting upon the top of the mound.
Proofs of this remarkable transformation from tenants in villenage to copyholdersare found in the reign of Henry III.
The commoners on a manorial common then will be, prima facie, the freeholders and copyholders of the manor, and the persons who own lands which were copyhold of the manor but have been enfranchised.
Copyholders almost invariably possess a right of common on the waste of the manor; and when (as is usual) they exist side by side with freeholders, their rights are generally of the same character.
Thus, while the freehold tenants enjoy their rights by the general law of the land, the copyholders have a similar enjoyment by the local law of the manor.
Copyhold tenure, on the other hand, cannot be lost sight of; and in many manors copyholders are numerous, or were, till quite recently.
Political power was still confined to the magnates of the kingdom, the townsfolk who were able to pay a £10 annual rental, and the well-to-do copyholders and leaseholders of rural districts.
Under the heading of customary tenants are grouped copyholders and tenants at will, as well as those who are called customary tenants in the rentals and surveys.
When they were copyholders for one life or more, they could do it more slowly; but still they could do it in time.
For a discussion of the legal position of the copyholders see below, pp.
It will be seen that the degree of security enjoyed by copyholders varies very greatly.
There are, in fact, copyholders and copyholders, and there is no general law of copyhold because its essence is to be local and peculiar.
Copyholders pay a fixed sum to be free of tallages.
Neither the freeholders nor copyholders shall not surcharge the lord's comon but to keep after the rate of his tenure.
But, while it rightly emphasises the special features of the tenure of customary land, it is difficult to reconcile what we actually know of the position of copyholders with this theory as to the complete security of copyhold tenure.
The copyholders of these manors are sometimes called tenants in ancient demesne, and land held in this tenure is said to pass by surrender and admittance.
That it is lawful for any of the copyholders or customary tenants of the said manor, to let her, his, or their copyholds for one year, but not for any longer term, without a licence from the lord of the said manor.
The copyholders were not to work for other masters without the leave of the lord.
Hoes were to be furnished to the copyholders in the first instance; but they were to renew them, when worn out, at their own expense.
I reply again, That the partisans of emancipation would be happy indeed, if they could see the day when our West Indian slaves should arrive at the rank and condition of the copyholders of Mr. Steele.
Dickson, "My copyholders have succeeded beyond my expectation.
Having done this, he fixed a daily wages or pay to be received by the copyholdersfor the work which they were to do.
The lands held by the copyholders still remained part and parcel of the lord's manor; and the freehold of these lands still continued vested in the lord; and this is the case at the present day with regard to all copyholds.
In old wills of copyholders we constantly find this legacy to the lord of the manor the first bequest mentioned: in fact the tenant really making a bounty of what was actually an obligation.
Now, as we have seen, copyholders in ancient times belonged to the class of villeins or bondsmen, and held, at the will of the lord, lands of which the lord himself was alone feudally possessed.
Many of the larger freeholders and copyholders on manors enclosed on their own account, and perhaps increased at the expense of the very large and the very small.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "copyholders" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
