copyholder
Example Sentences
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The Canadian censitaire had a written title-deed which stated explicitly the dues and services he was bound to give his seigneur; the copyholder had nothing of the kind.
From The Seigneurs of Old Canada : A Chronicle of New World Feudalism by William Bennett Munro
The rise of the copyholder from a state of uncertainty to certainty of tenure appears to have been very gradual.
From Legal Lore Curiosities of Law and Lawyers by Various
Most former voters and every leaseholder and every copyholder were excluded.
From Our Legal Heritage by S. A. Reilly
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 Maurice Henry Hewlett
A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
From View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 by Henry Hallam
