copyholder

A copyholder without legal remedy may seem little better than a tenant in mere villenage, except in name.
View of the State of Europe during the Middle Ages, Vol. 3 (of 3)|Henry Hallam
For it is the destruction of the inheritance and against the nature of a copyholder for life.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century|Richard Henry Tawney
In 1581 it interferes to protect a copyholder who has been kept out of his holding by the Dean and Chapter of Peterborough.
The Agrarian Problem in the Sixteenth Century|Richard Henry Tawney
A tenant at a quit rent is, to all intents and purposes, a proprietor; a copyholder is not less so than a freeholder.
Present Irish Questions|William O'Connor Morris

So after a while instead of "villein" he became a "copyholder."
Appletons' Popular Science Monthly, May 1899|Various

British Dictionary definitions for copyholder

copyholder

/ (ˈkɒpɪˌhəʊldə) /

noun

printing one who reads aloud from the copy as the proof corrector follows the reading in the proof

printing a device that holds copy in place for the compositor

law (formerly) a person who held land by copyhold tenure

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