copyholder
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I feel what I owe you, and independently of this, I love you as a friend; indeed, so much, that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.
From Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey by Joseph Cottle
A special custom is required to entitle the wife of a copyholder to any interest in her husband’s lands on his death intestate.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.
From The Vision Splendid by William MacLeod Raine
However, in the reign of Edward IV. this was put out of doubt by the judges, who permitted the copyholder to bring his action of trespass against the lord for dispossession.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
The head proofreader in turn gives the proof to an assistant and the manuscript to a copyholder, who reads the story to the assistant for the detection of typographical errors.
From News Writing The Gathering , Handling and Writing of News Stories by M. Lyle (Matthew Lyle) Spencer
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