(379) In a larger sense, copyhold is said to import every customary tenure, (that is, every tenure depending on the particular custom of a manor,) as opposed to free socage, or freehold, which may now (since the abolition of knight-service) be considered as the general or common law tenure of the country. 1 Steph. Com. 210. See 1 Crabb's Real Prop. 606, § 765, et seq. Burton's Real Prop. ch. vii. Watkins and Scriven on Copyholds. **Copyhold is lineally descended from the ancient tenure of pure villenage, the will of the lord by which the villein held having become, in the course of time, so far modified and controlled by custom, as to allow the tenant to hold his lands, on performance of the required services, in spite of any determination of the lord's will. 2 Bl. Com. 95. 1 Steph. Com. 201, 210. 1 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 39. Copyhold is, in other words, villenage divested of all its slavish incidents. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 536. Villeins appears to have been called custumarii tenentes (customary tenants) in the fourth year of Edw. I.; tenants per roll solonque le volunt seigneur, (tenants by roll according to the will of the lord,) in 42 Edw. III. 35; tenants per le verge, (by the verge,) in 14 Hen. IV. 34; and copyholders in 1 Hen. V. 11. Co. Litt. 58. 3 Reeves' Hist. Eng. Law, 312, 313. COPYHOLDER, Copiholder. [L. Fr. tenant per copie de court rol.] In English law. A tenant by copyhold; so called from the copy of the court roll delivered to him by the steward of the manor, as the evidence of his title. Co. Litt. 58 a. Litt. sect. 75. 2 Bl. Com. 95. Otherwise called copy-tenants. Brownl. part 2, 77. observed that this was the technical sense in which the term had been used for ages. 4 Burr. 2303, 2396. A copyright may be had in maps, charts, prints, cuts, engravings and musical compositions, as well as in books. 2 Kent's Com. 373. The copyright of a map is an exclusive right to the multiplication of copies for the benefit of the author or his assigns, disconnected from the plate, or any other physical existence. It is an incorporeal right to print and publish the map, or, as said by Lord Mansfield, in Millar v. Taylor, "a property in notion, and has no corporeal, tangible substance." Nelson, J. 14 Howard's R. 530. See Curtis on Copyright. United States Digest, Copyright. (380) resident); that being the style of the court. 1 Arch. Pr. 234, 276. 2 Tidd's Pr. 1136. See Coram ipso rege. Writs of error to correct the judgments of other courts, (such as the Common Pleas,) are said to be coram vobis; the record and process being stated to remain "before you," (quæ coram vobis resident,) that is, before the justices of the court. Id. 1137. This description seems to express more accurately the distinction between writs coram nobis and coram vobis than that which represents the former as lying to the same court in which the judgment was given; and as lying for errors in fact; neither of which features seem to be peculiar to it. Id. 1136, 1137. 2 Impey's Pr. K. B. 811. 1 Arch. Pr. 234, 276. 2 Saund. 100, 101 a, note. See Coram vobis. But see 3 Maryland R. 325. 1 Hempstead's R. 62. ( 381 ) ers of these houses of common right, (unless the foundation was in frankalmoign,) and in this way became frequently due to the king.* Spelman. Termes de la Ley. See Barringt. Obs. Stat. 80, note [y]. It was a species of incorporeal hereditament, but is now obsolete. 2 Bl. Com. 40. 1 Id. 283. 2 Inst. 630. 1 Crabb's Real Prop. 252, § 259. Crabb's Hist. Eng. Law, 252. (382) office was the keeping of rolls or records of every thing done before them, which rolls were sometimes received as conclusive evidence. Bract. fol. 140 b, lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 20. See Counter-roll. (383) term corporatus occurs in the Code of Justinian. Cod. 11. 1. 8. Id. 11. 14. the law with the capacity of acting in several respects as an individual. Shelford on (384) which can be touched and seen; material. Mackeld. Civ. Law, 284, §. 240. Bract. Co. Litt. 9 a. fol. 38 b, 39 b, 45 b. See Corpore et (385) early as the 12th century. Dionysius Gothofredus, however, was the first who applied it as a title embracing all the collections of Justinian in one work, (A. D. 1604). 1 Mackeldey's Civ. Law, 89, § 98, note. See Am. ed. note to 1 P. Wms. 52.