copyholders being thus considered as slaves, were, notwithstanding their possessions, deemed unworthy of the franchise; and from this refinement, on the arbitrary principles of the Normans, every copyholder was deprived of a vote, unless he could claim it by some other tenure.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 569, October 6, 1832] Reference

English copyholder had become at the accession of Henry VII., and what the.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

The last was practically the counterpart of the mediæval English copyholder.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Culture Past and Present] Reference

I love you as a friend; indeed, so much, that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, and Robert Southey]

He drove a delivery wagon for a grocer, ushered at a theater, was even a copyholder in the proofroom of a newspaper.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Vision Splendid] Reference

He must, I think, himself have been a copyholder in his day, so feelingly does he deal with the detriments of a champion-holding.    From Wordnik.com.  [In a Green Shade A Country Commentary] Reference

I feel what I owe you, and independently of this, I love you as a friend; indeed, so much, that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reminiscences of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and Robert Southey] Reference

I feel what I owe you, and, independently of this, I love you as a friend, -- indeed so much that I regret, seriously regret, that you have been my copyholder.    From Wordnik.com.  [Biographia Epistolaris, Volume 1.] Reference

Parliament, and a possessor of rights on the common both as a freeholder and a copyholder, was induced to take action in his own name and as a representative of other claimants of common rights.    From Wordnik.com.  [An Introduction to the Industrial and Social History of England] Reference

On the opposite side of the room was a large, massively-constructed copying camera, the front of which, carrying the lens, was fixed, and an easel or copyholder travelled on parallel guides towards, or away, from it, on a long stand.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Red Thumb Mark] Reference

If if. be a copyholder in tail, remainder to E, in fee, and j4» takes a grant of thfc freehold from the lord to him and his heirs, and dies without ifTuc; is not B. in whom there was once a veiled remainder in fee of the copyhold pre jniifcs, intirled to the fame?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ...] Reference

Up to this time all suitors who attended at the Sheriff's Court had voted without question for the Knight of the Shire, but by the new statute the great bulk of the existing voters, every leaseholder and every copyholder, found themselves implicitly deprived of their franchise.    From Wordnik.com.  [History of the English People, Volume III (of 8) The Parliament, 1399-1461; The Monarchy 1461-1540] Reference

Instead of completing their stipulated number of tenantry, the same persons often were admitted as tenants to different undertakers, and in the same seniory sometimes served at once as freeholder, leaseholder, and copyholder, so as to fill up the necessary number of each denomination.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Story of Ireland] Reference

What the villein was in England in the thirteenth century, that the serf was in Prussia in the year 1806; and the change which in England gradually elevated the villein into the free copyholder was that change which, so many centuries later, the Prussian legislator effected by one great measure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

And if the lord cut down all the timber trees, then the copyholder fliall lofe all the profit which for the future might come unto him, and never afterwards fliould have any more lop - pings; and it is a reafonable cuftom to have the loppings of tlie polisngersy which anciently have been continued.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641]] Reference

No process was permitted to take place corresponding to that by which in England, after the villein had become the free copyholder, the lord, with or without technical legal right, terminated the copyhold tenure of his retainer, and made the land as much his own exclusive property as the chairs and tables in his house.    From Wordnik.com.  [A History of Modern Europe, 1792-1878] Reference

It may be well understood, therefore, why these interlopers, who ignored the ancient customary law of the country, and who by means of an alien code deprived the poor freeholder or copyholder of his land, or justified new and unheard-of exactions on the part of his lord on the plea that the latter might do what he liked with his own, were regarded by the peasant and humble man as robbers whose depredations were, if anything, even more resented than those of their old and tried enemy -- the plundering knight.    From Wordnik.com.  [German Culture Past and Present] Reference

'where a copyholder has mortgaged his cdpyliolSl' riSlid the.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference

S, Si copyholder in poifeflion relea (b to the grantee all hb right, the copy - hold is not extind, - 21.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of Sir George Croke, knight. Formerly one of the justices of the courts of Kings-bench, and common-pleas, of such select cases as were adjudged in the said courts [1582-1641]] Reference

A fingle copyholder is not relievable in equity for an exceflive fine, becaufe this is deterji) inable at law; but to avoid multiplicity of fuits, feveral copyholders may join to be relieved againft a general iine that is exceiTive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ...] Reference

Come, are you a freeholder or a copyholder?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scarborough and the Critic] Reference

WASTE, injunction against, for lord against copyholder, II.    From Wordnik.com.  [Reports of cases argued and determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of some special cases adjudged in the Court of King's Bench [1695-1735]] Reference