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copyholder

noun/ˈkɒpiˌhəʊldə/

C2CEFR level
95/100Rarity: very rare
TechnicalRegister

A tenant who held land according to the custom of the manor, evidenced by a copy of the court roll.

The copyholder's title depended entirely on the entries recorded in the manorial court roll.

Topic: Property in Legal English

Rarity runs from 0 (a word everyone knows) to 100 (almost never seen outside specialist or literary writing). Level is the word's real difficulty on the CEFR scale, from A1 to C2.

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