copyholder

Example Sentences

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

From Our Legal Heritage by Reilly, S. A.

The last was practically the counterpart of the mediæval English copyholder.

From German Culture Past and Present by Bax, Ernest Belfort

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 Raine, William MacLeod

Now the English copyholder held his land subject to the customs of the manor; his dues and services were fixed by local custom both as regards their nature and amount.

From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by Munro, William Bennett

The rise of the copyholder from a state of uncertainty to certainty of tenure appears to have been very gradual.

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