Copyhold
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At its origin in mediaeval England, Copyhold tenure was tenure of land according to the custom of the manor, the "title deeds" being a copy of the record of the manor court.
Copyholds were gradually enfranchised (turned into ordinary holdings of land—either freehold or 999-year leasehold) during the 19th century. Legislation in the 1920s finally extinguished the last of them.
For further information see Manorial Law (1996) by Andrew Barsby.
Other defunct forms of tenure
- Tenure in feu (the general name for the following)
- Tenure in chivalry
- Tenure by grand sergeanty
- Tenure by petty sergeanty
- Tenure of knight service
- Tenure by frankalmoigne or free alms
- Tenure by socage (including such forms as)
- gavelkind
- borough English
- burage
- Tenure of villeinage (which preceded copyhold).