EV-0616 — Law of Property Act 1922, ss.128 and 138: all copyhold enfranchised into freehold from 1 January 1926; manorial incidents to be extinguished within ten years

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EV ID	EV-0616
Title	Law of Property Act 1922, ss.128 and 138: all copyhold enfranchised into freehold from 1 January 1926; manorial incidents to be extinguished within ten years
Date of document	1 January 1926
Type	statute
Evidence label	LAW — ENACTED TEXT
Repository / reference	legislation.gov.uk (enacted text).
Status	READ.
Provenance	Read 25 Oct 2026. The Law of Property Act 1925 and Land Registration Act 1925 also came into force on 1 Jan 1926; a buyer could then require 30 years of title (LPA 1925 s.44(1)).
Related entries	EV-0613, EV-0146

Shows: 1 Jan 1926 rebuilt English property law and reached Bute’s manors directly. A copyholder’s land became the holder’s freehold by statute.

Does not show: Whether the family’s holding was ever copyhold is not shown in any record on file.

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