copyholder
Example Sentences
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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
And if a precedent is asked for the particular remedy proposed, the Acts enabling any copyholder to enfranchise his holding should be consulted.
From Practical Politics; or, the Liberalism of To-day by Alfred Farthing Robbins
This copyholder was undoubtedly the descendant of the Welsh serf of mediaeval times.
From Short History of Wales by Sir Owen Morgan Edwards
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
The copyholder must not commit waste either by cutting 117 down timber, &c., or by neglecting to repair buildings.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 3 "Convention" to "Copyright" by Various
