copyholder

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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

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 Robbins, Alfred Farthing

This copyholder was undoubtedly the descendant of the Welsh serf of mediaeval times.

From Short History of Wales by Edwards, Owen Morgan, Sir

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

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