Copyhold - Law Dictionary Search Results
Fees
under every circumstance, was generally handed down from steward to steward. When the steward made excessive charges, the copyholder might have brought an action on the case to recover the excess, and it has been suggested that
Fairs
may keep the fair or market where they please, or where they can most conveniently. Notwithstanding enfranchisement of copyholds under the (English) Law of Property Act, 1922, the land formerly copyhold remains subject to the lord's right
Enfranchisement
member to Parliament, or of a person to vote at a Parliamentary election; and (2) of the turning copyholds into freeholds, as to which see COPYHOLD. The granting of voting rights or other right of citizenship to
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Husband and wife
(2) by creating a trust in her favour; (3) by the custom of particular places; (4) by surrendering copyholds to her use; and (5) by will. Equity, however, from very early times, by the doctrines of 'separate
Strict settlement
in tail with cross remainders between them, remainder to the husband in fee. Where the estate also comprised copyholds and leaseholds, these were conveyed to trustees upon trusts to correspond with the uses declared concerning the freeholds.
Renewal of lease
of renewal. A comprehensive code on this subject is provided in the (English) L.P. Act, 1922, 15th Sch. Copyholds held with a perpetual right of renewal are converted into enfranchised freehold by s. 135 of the L.P.
Reditus albi
Reditus albi, white rents-quit-rents by freeholders or ancient copyholders of a manor, reserved in silver or white money, 2 Bl. Com. 42.
Queen consort
King, for she is of ability to purchase lands and to convey them, to make leases, to grant copyholds, and to do other acts of ownership, without the concurrence of her husband. She has separate courts and
Profit a prendre
tenement, to take some profit out of the tenement of another man. Except in the case of a copyholder no claim of a profit ' prendre in alieno solo can be made by custom, nor can it
Procuratory of resignation
series of heirs, which is termed a resignation in favorem. It is somewhat analogous to the surrender of copyholds in England. See Bell's Scots Law Dict.
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