Explore: Copyhold Interest

services. Such grants/servitude was not always in the best interest of the peasant and the copyhold could be extinguished by an act of the tenant showing an

Copyholds were not devisable before 1815, but were usually surrendered to the use of the will of the copyhold tenant; the Disposition of Copyhold Estates

construction. When in 1734 David Dunbar, surveyor-general, visited the Copyhold Mill to inspect fallen lumber, local citizens assembled, discharged firearms

partly from individuals who held certain rights under the ancient system of copyhold, and also from influential figures who valued the heath as a natural asset

and Law of Property (Amendment) Act 1924, converting copyhold to fee simple. Although copyhold was abolished, the title of Lord of the Manor remains

also freehold estates not of inheritance, such as an estate for life and copyhold was promoted into freehold by the Act. All estates can be subject to payments

education, a standard of comfort, and a degree of leisure and a common interest in ways of spending it". Leisure distinguished gentry from businessmen

but John, Lord Gower also claimed similar rights for land he held in copyhold. The two men obtained the Statute of Merton and the Statute of Westminster

manor Freeholders or yeomanry. Proprietors of large and small properties Copyholders. Tenant farmers Cottagers/cottar Squatters Farm servants living in their

action" to a third party. Abolished the last legal statutes relating to copyhold, a successor to the feudal system of villeinage where a tenant was obligated