copyhold|copyholds in English
noun
ownership of land (proven by ownership deeds)
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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