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Home Dictionary Name: cruiseCustomary freeholds
Customary 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 Lexicon. ' Also denominated, privileged copyholds of frank tenure; they were known inancient times as estates inprivileged villenage or villein socage, and are estates held by custom, but not at the lord's will, in which they differ from copyholds; yet the will of the lord in copyhold is reduced to a mere fiction. These lands are of such singular nature that, when they are compared with mere copyholds, they may be called freeholds, and when compared with absolute freeholds, they maybe denominated copyholds. While the freehold interest or estate rests with the tenant, the freehold tenure is in the lord. (Mr. Serjeant Scriven dissents from this proposition in his workon Copyholds, vol. ii. pp. 572 et seq.) They are usually transferred by surrender into...
Corsair
A pirate one who cruises about without authorization from any government to seize booty on sea or land...
Cruise
See Cruse a small bottle...
Cruiser
One who or a vessel that cruises...
manned
Having a crew of vehicles as a manned earth satellite was considered a necessary research step to minimize casualties the military used cruise missiles rather than manned aircraft for the bombardment Opposite of unmanned...
Pirate
A robber on the high seas one who by open violence takes the property of another on the high seas especially one who makes it his business to cruise for robbery or plunder a freebooter on the seas also one who steals in a harbor...
Privateer
An armed private vessel which bears the commission of the sovereign power to cruise against the enemy See Letters of marque under Marque...
Privateering
Cruising in a privateer...
Sea rover
One that cruises or roves the sea for plunder a sea robber a pirate also a piratical vessel...
Sea roving
Cruising at random on the ocean...
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