Copyhold
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At its origin in medieval England, Copyhold tenure was tenure of land according to the custom of the manor, the "title deeds" being a copy of the record of the manor court.
Copyholds were gradually enfranchised (turned into ordinary holdings of land—either freehold or 999-year leasehold) during the 19th century. Legislation in the 1920s finally extinguished the last of them.
[edit] Other defunct forms of tenure
- Tenure in feu (the general name for the following)
- Tenure in chivalry
- Tenure by grand sergeanty
- Tenure by petty sergeanty
- Tenure of Knight-service
- Tenure by frankalmoin or free alms
- Tenure by socage (including such forms as)
- Tenure of villeinage (which preceded copyhold).
[edit] Further reading
- Andrew Barsby (1996) Manorial Law
