Copyhold+land

  • 11copyhold — n. Brit. hist. 1 tenure of land based on manorial records. 2 land held in this way. Derivatives: copyholder n …

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  • 12copyhold — n. ownership of land (proven by ownership deeds) …

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  • 13copyhold — noun Brit. historical tenure of land based on manorial records …

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  • 14copyhold estate — A form of English land tenure, unknown in this country, being an estate at will which was enrolled, thereby establishing the rights of the tenant and giving more permanency to his estate than an ordinary estate at will. Anno: 114 ALR 626 …

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  • 15land tenure — noun the right to hold property; part of an ancient hierarchical system of holding lands • Syn: ↑tenure • Hypernyms: ↑legal right • Hyponyms: ↑copyhold, ↑freehold, ↑villeinage …

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  • 16History of English land law — Material here has been extracted from the 1911 Britannica encyclopedia. The history of English land law derives from a mixture of Roman, Norman and modern legislative sources.OutlineSuch terms as fee or homage carry us back into feudal times.… …

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  • 17Common land — Modern day pannage, or common of mast, in the New Forest For other uses of commons , see Commons (disambiguation). Common land (a common) is land owned collectively or by one person, but over which other people have certain traditional rights,… …

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  • 18National Land Company — Not to be confused with British Land Company. See also: Timeline of the National Land Company National Land Company Fate Wound up by Act of Parliament Successor Court of Chancery Founded provisionally 1846 Defunct 1851 …

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  • 19enfranchisement of copyhold — The act of the lord of the manor in conveying a fee simple title to a copyholder, thus changing the tenure of the land from copyhold to freehold …

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  • 20feudal land tenure — System by which land was held by tenants from lords. In England and France, the king was lord paramount and master of the realm. He granted land to his lords, who granted land to their vassals and so on down to the occupying tenant. Tenures were… …

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