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Copyholders, are in truth no other but villains who, by a long series of immemorial encroachments on the lord, have at last established a customary right to those estates which before were held absolutely at the lord's will', Co. Litt, 58(a), Halsbury's Laws of England, Vol. 9, para 751, p. 482.