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Privileged Copyholds

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

Those copyholds which are held according to the customs of the manor, and not according to the will of the lord. They include ancient demesne and customary freehold.

2 Wooddeson, Lect. 33-49; Lee, Real Prop. 63; 1 Crabb, Real Prop. 709, 919; 2 Bl. Comm. 100.