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Bond-tenants

Bond-tenants, copyholders and customary tenants are sometimes so called, Calthorp on Customs of London.

Copyhold

is to be remarked that his tenancy at will must be according to custom, which always regulates the copyholder's interest, upon which interest the lord has no power whatever to encroach. Free copyholds or customary freeholds, however,

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

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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

Heriot

death, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 732. The extinction of heriots was first attempted by the (English) Copyhold Act, 1841, s. 13. By the (Eng-lish) Copyhold Act, 1852, s. 16, and the Copyhold Act, 1858, ss.

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

Manor

hereafter, form no part whatever of the essence of a manor. The lord of a manor may have copyholders or may not; but I am not speaking of them at present. The rights and interests of copyholders

Rent

clause of distress. See infra. (5) Rents of assize, the certain established rents of the freeholders, and ancient copyholders of a manor, which cannot be departed from. Those of the freeholders are frequently called chief-rents, and both

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

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.,

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