copyhold in English
noun
1
tenure of land based on manorial records.
I use the word sale for simplicity although, being copyhold , the land was in fact surrendered to the Lord of the Manor by the vendors and then re-granted by him to the purchasers.
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1. 3 In most practical aspects heritable copyhold differed little from socage.
2. Borough english, a custom prevailing in certain ancient English boroughs, and in districts attached to them (where the lands are held in socage), and also in certain copyhold manors (chiefly in Surrey, Middlesex, Suffolk and Sussex), by which in general lands descend to the youngest son, to the exclusion of all the other children, of the person dying seised and intestate