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Tenure

land now existing with a few unimpor-tant exceptions are (1) free and common socage in fee-simple, including enfranchised copyhold, which is subject to paramount incidents; and (2) a term of years absolute (see LAND). The idea of

Free-bench

Free-bench [sedes libera, Lat.], a widow's dower out of copyholds to which she was entitled by the custom of some manors. It is regarded as an excrescence growing

Partition

the latter Act applying to joint tenants and tenants in common holding for life or years. Co-owners of copyhold were first enabled to make partition by s. 85 of the (English) Copyhold Act, 1841, since re-enacted by

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Forfeiture

Statute shall be forfeited to the Crown or the mesne lord. Apparently, the Land Charges Act, 1922, abolish-ing copyholds, may not having affected the claim to forfeiture by mesne lords under this head, Halsbury, L.E., 2nd Edn.,

Extinguishment

to denote the interruption but for which an inchoate right would become established by prescription. (3) Extinguishment of copyhold. When a tenant conveyed to his lord, or did an act denoting his intention of not holding of

Admittance

Admittance, giving possession of a copyhold estate now abolished by the (English) L. P. Act, 1922. See COPYHOLDS; formerly it was of three kinds:

Exchange, Deed of

the reciprocal transfer of interests ejusdem generis, as fee simple for fee simple, legal estate for legal estate, copyhold for copyhold of the same manor, and the like the one in consideration of the other. It takes

Petit serjeanty

affect the services incident to Grand or Petty Serjeanty (which are not to be deemed manorial incidents; see COPYHOLD), and the land is to be held in like manner as if before the commencement of the Act

Roll of Court

the lands belong.'-Williams on Real Property. As to custody, an superintendence, of the Master of the Rolls, see COPYHOLD, and Law of Property Act, 1924, 2nd Sch.

Steward of manor

lord's solicitor. The office has been deprived of much of its importance in consequence of the abolition of copyhold tenure by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922 (see COPYHOLDS). The scale of compensation to the steward

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