...plaintiff seisin of the land in question, to hold unto her, her heirs and assigns, for ever, of the lord by copy of court roll, according to the custom of the manor ; and that it had been the custom of the manor from time immemorial for the lord of the manor to make...

...the medwe at Babwelle. copie-höld n. [Cp. copie 3 & frë-höld.] Law. (a) Tenure of manorial land by copy of court roll 'according to the custom of the manor and at the will of the lord'; (b) land so held. (a) (l464) RParl. 5.5l7b: Nor that the seid Acte extend...

...yearc, or thereabout, that the tenants of the Manor for the most part held their lands within the Manor by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the Manor, and that at this day there are divers copybold tenants of the Mannor. That there were two water grist...

...for a parcel thereof. The said grounds were demised to Laurence Townley, grandfather of defendant, by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the manor of ell, and he occupied the same for term of his life without interruption from anybody. After the...

...Robert Dukett of Sibton, his heirs and assigns; whereas John Duckett of Sibton, the grantee's father, held by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor from the grantors as from their manor of Sibton one messuage called Clerk' in Sibton with 10 acres...

...stated thus: "By the Right Honourable Jeremiah Dyson." Considerations on the question, whether tenants by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor, though not at the will of the lord, are freeholders qualified to vote in elections for knights of the...

...copyhold lands' (Doc. n).102 The similarity of leases for lives by indenture at the common law and by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor is shown by the incidents that were generally common to both: entry fine, heriot, suit of court and...