copyholder

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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

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 must, I think, himself have been a copyholder in his day, so feelingly does he deal with the detriments of a champion-holding.

From In a Green Shade A Country Commentary by Hewlett, Maurice Henry

Most former voters and every leaseholder and every copyholder were excluded.

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

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 Hallam, Henry