Freehold vs. Copyhold — What's the Difference?

A form of estate in which possession is held in fee, in tail, for the duration of the person's life, or during the life of some other person.

Copyhold was a form of customary land ownership common from the Late Middle Ages into modern times in England. The name for this type of land tenure is derived from the act of giving a copy of the relevant title deed that is recorded in the manorial court roll to the tenant; not the actual land deed itself.

The tenure by which such an estate is held.

A former form of tenure in which the title deeds were a copy of the manorial roll.

A tenure of an office or a dignity for life.

A tenure of estate by copy of court roll; or a tenure for which the tenant has nothing to show, except the rolls made by the steward of the lord's court.

(property law) Of a tenure or estate in land, held in fee simple absolute in possession by a proprietor; granted out of the allodial title, liable to determine only on escheat.

A medieval form of land tenure in England; a copyhold was a parcel of land granted to a peasant by the lord of the manor in return for agricultural services

Freehold tenure.

(property law) Real property held by a tenure of this type.

To dispense property in this way.

An estate in real property, of inheritance (in fee simple or fee tail) or for life; or the tenure by which such estate is held.

An estate held in fee simple or for life

Tenure by which land is held in fee simple or for life