...title, was preserved in his legal designation, which was, and still is, "tenant at the will of the lord, by copy of court roll, according to the custom of the manor." The disappearance of the class which in England corresponded to the peasantry of the Continent has...

...case of the Oxfordshire election in 1754, when one of the questions raised was whether termnts holding by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor, though not at the will of the lord, were freeholders qualified to vote in elections for knights of the shire. The case exciting great interest,...

...and one othere messuage and yard-land in Combe, now demised to the said Nicholas for term of his life by copy of Court Roll according to the custom of the manor of Combe by Henry Fortescue Esqr: and Mary his wife, in consideration of the sum of 5£ by the said...

...customary freeholds are a privileged and superior kind of copyholds. The tenants of these lands hold by copy of court roll according to the custom of the manor, but they are not said to bold at the will of the lord. This tenure is fourni chiefly in the north of...

...customary freehold' land. Hill was the owner of land in the manor of Bolsover, held of the Duke of Portland by copy of court roll, according to the custom of the manor, but not at the will of the lord. He claimed the right to dig for coal in his land, and to sell the...

...on admission to Copyhold estates. See Collectanea Juridica, vol. 2, pp. 258-261 and 340-346. 144 G Considerations on the question whether tenants by...of the lord, are freeholders qualified to vote in elections for knights of the shire. See Blackstone's Law Tracts, 3rd ed. 177I, pp. 199-240. 144 G COPYHOLDS—...

...King's Meadow, and all other commons and wastes belonging to the Manor, should be by them enjoyed as by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the Manor, for and under divers several yearly rents, customs, and services, to His Majesty ; and for ever thereafter...

...warren, (<J) piscaries, or any other rights of hunting, shooting, fishing, or fowling. In lands held by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the manor, the freehold is in the lord, and in the absence of custom (the onus of establishing which lies on the...

...divided by thirty-six people whose names are set down in the award, and who are all described as owners by copy of Court Roll, according to the custom of the manor of Ryton. 107 acres fell to Sir Thomas Tempest, and other portions varying from 34 acres to an acre,...

...as a necessary condition, but in open Court, to grant parcels of the waste in severalty to be held by copy of Court roll according to the custom of the manor. *And I [ *678 ] find and declare that no such custom was proved. They also contended, that if the consent...