copyhold

Reigate and Banstead Borough Council'sdevelopment management plan (DMP), submitted for examination in May 2018,lists the derelict Copyhold Works and the land around itas a potential development site.

indicating a considerable land market in both copyhold and freehold

If you are buying residential property, you may not be concerned if the legal title to it states that the mines and minerals are excluded from the registration or the land was formerly copyhold and there are rights reserved to a Lord of the Manor, because you may believe that it is unlikely that they will ever be worked.

On 9 May 1781, when Samuel junior was admitted to copyhold land, John Henshaw and his brother-in-law George Walford were the homagers present at the court.

when he was mentioned in the manorial court rolls, serving on the inquisicio magna of the view of frankpledge, as constable, and standing regularly as a pledge for transactions in copyhold land.

To wear a farm in shoe-strings edged with gold and spangled garters with a copyhold: A hose and doublet, which a lordship cost a gaudy cloak (three manor's price almost) A Beaver, Band, and Feather for the Head (Priz'd at the Churches tythe, the poor mans bread) For which the wearers are feared and abhorred Like Jereboam's golden calves adored.

"A map dated 1654 shows Elswick Park, surrounded by 10 privately owned copyhold farms, owned by; Anderson, Bell, Wallis, Bartram, Riddell, Errington, Newton, Swinburn, Hodgson and my ancestor Henry Turnbull.

The MDR was set up at the Public Record Office in 1926 following the 1922 Law of Property Act, which abolished copyhold tenure.

His father as lord of the manor had received 'heavy fines' to grant licences to masters to mine coal on copyhold land in Sedgley manor adjoining the Birmingham Canal but the new canals would open up rival collieries which threatened their trade.

In 1858 Leonard Shelford explains in his Laws of Copyhold that the practice of holding title by custom still applies to copyhold tenants, who can defend their title by proving the practice's "existence at a distant time ...

The Court of the Chancery was created to provide some kind of oversight and, by the sixteenth century, it covered matters that did not fall under Common Law: a few extraordinary property matters such as copyhold and efeoffment.

These range from written leases, similar to the English copyhold, to the uniquely Scottish principle of kindness, a kinship-derived, heritable, and assignable right to occupancy.

He said to me: 'Why are you against the sale of council houses?' My reply was: 'I would give every tenant of ours the freehold or copyhold of his or her house free of charge if they would sign an undertaking to (a) vest that ownership into a self-governing co-operative and (b), if they wanted to sell it, they could only sell it back to the co-operative.' I continued: 'I believe that Harold Macmillan is right and you ought not to sell the family silver.'

Thus, while lex forestae died away, part of manorial tenure survived, enforced by the common law as the custom of copyhold. (39) Copyhold provides a convenient example of this technique of `accommodation'.