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copyhold [ˈkɒpɪˌhəʊld] n Law (formerly)
(Law) a. a tenure less than freehold of land in England evidenced by a copy of the Court roll b. land held in this way ThesaurusLegend: Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
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| Here, as always, he is careful to define his terms--custom itself, copyhold, and their relationship with the common law. He also saw his fellow countrymen as having been made corrupt and effeminate by years of servitude, "by nature slaves, and arrant beasts; not fitt for that liberty which they cri'd out and bellow'd for, but fitter to be led back again into thir old servitude, like a sort of clamouring & fighting brutes, broke loos from thir copyholds, that know not how to use or possess the liberty which they fought for" (Eikonoklastes XXVII, Works, 5:290). It was in the eastern counties that the tenure of copyhold took root during the expansive years of the sixteenth century, thus laying the ground for the emergence of the English yeomen, "a process engineered by the copyholders themselves. |
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