Ceit Butler
Copyhold is a late 17th Century legal fiction describing a type of estate whereby the privileges and rights of use of property granted or entitled to a tenant are defined in accordance with the record books or “court rolls” of a manor and a “copy” or “receipt” or “certificate” of such rights then handed to the tenant or their appointed guardian as proof as the “holder”
Printed copy · Anthology Volume 5, page 607
