Copyholds are also said to be holden according to the custom of the manor to which they belong, for custom is of course the life and being of copyholds.
The tenure of an estate in copyholds involves an oath of fealty from the tenant, and together also with suit to the customary court of the manor.
From this it will be seen that freebench is no impediment to free alienation by the husband of his copyholds without any consent on the part of his wife.
Thus arose the method now prevalent at the present day, of conveying copyholds by surrender into the hands of the lord of the manor to the use of the purchaser, and the subsequent admittance of the latter.
And thus it was that copyholds of inheritance arose.
The copyholds and long leaseholds of ten-pound qualification he would reduce to five pounds.
His lordship proposed to allow the owner of copyholds and customary freeholds to dispose of them by will, which could not now be done.
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.
It is quite certain that a great many copyholds were not copyholds of inheritance, but copyholds for life, which returned into the hands of the lord with the death of every tenant.
For conversion of copyholds to tenancies at will, Selden Society, Select Cases in the Court of Requests, Kent and other inhabitants of Abbot's Ripton v.
Savine[30] has adduced to prove that, in the case of copyholds of inheritance, a plaintiff who could show a clear title could get legal redress.
Savine, it would appear that copyholds for life or lives were more usual than copyholds of inheritance, while fixed fines were the exception and variable fines the general rule.
Holy men enclose land, convert arable to pasture, claim villeins, turn copyholds into tenancies at will.
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