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Surrender of copyholds

Surrender of copyholds. The following note affects the title to copyholds, as it existed before their abolition by the (English) Law

by the law. Until extinguishment as provided by Part VI. of the Law of Property Act, 1922 (see COPYHOLD), the lord's right to timber on copyhold land remained as an incident of the enfranchised tenure. The right

Customary freeholds

freeholds have been converted into 'socage tenure' by the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, s. 189, see COPYHOLD. Owing to its historical intrest the following note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition of the

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Quit rent

Quit rent (quietus redditus), a rent payable to the lord by a freeholder or ancient copyholder of a manor, so called because thereby the tenant goes quit and free of all other services, 2

Ancient demesne

by s. 128 of the (English) L. P. Act, 1922 (12 & 13 Geo. 5, c. 16), see COPYHOLDS, but formerly existing in certain manors, which, though now granted to private persons, were in the actual possession

Court-leet

opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but

Customary Court-baron

hold by villein or base services, 2 Wat.Cop., c. i. p. 9; and see Elton or Scriven on Copyholds. It is to be observed that although there should be no freeholders of the manor, by which the

Tenant by copy

Tenant by copy, i.e., by copy of the Court Roll, a copyholder. See COPYHOLDS.

Wills

did not leave an heir or next-of-kin surviving him. The fourth and fifth sections relate to dispositions of copyhold estates, and the sixth to estates pur autre vie of a freehold nature. See SPECIAL OCCUPANCY. (2) Who

Verge or virge

to thirty acres, 28 Edw. 1. Also, a stick, or rod, whereby one is admitted tenant to a copyhold estate, O.N.B. 17. Hence, copyholders are some-times called 'tenants by the verge.'

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