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rolls made by the steward of the lord’s 
Court. 
The customs of manors differ as much 
as the humour and temper of the respective 
ancient lords, so a copyholder, by custom 
may be tenant in fee-simple, in fee- tail, for 
life, by the courtesy, in dower^ for years, 
at sufferance, or on condition ; subject, 
however, to be deprived of these estates 
upon the concurrence of those circum- 
stances which the will of the lords, pro- 
mulged by immemorial custom, hath de- 
clared to be a forfeiture or absolute deter- 
mination of those interests ; as in some 
manors the want of issue, in others the 
want of issue male, in others the cutting 
down timber, in others the non-payment of 
rent or fine. Yet none of these interests 
amount to freehold ; for the fi eehold of the 
whole manor abides always with the lord 
only, who hatli granted out the use of oc- 
cupation, but not tlie corporeal seizin, or 
trae possession of certain parts or parcels 
thereof, to these his customary tenants at 
will. 
If a person -would devise a copyhold 
estate, he cannot do it by his will, but he 
must surrender to the use of his last will 
and testament, and in his will declare his 
intent ; and here the lands do not pass 
by the will, but by the surrender thus 
made. 
Copyhold inheritances have no collateral 
qualities, which do not concern the descent, 
as to make them assets to bind the heir, or 
whereof the wife may be endowed, &c. 
They are not extendible in execution, but 
are within the acts against bankrupts, and 
the statutes of limitation. 
CoPY-holder, one who is admitted tenant 
of lands or tenements within a manor, 
which, time out of mind, by use and cus- 
tom of the manor, have been demisable 
and demised to such as will take them in 
fee- simple, or fee-tale, for life, years, or at 
will, according to the custom of the manor 
by copy of court-roll. But is generally 
where the tenant has such estate either in 
fee or for three lives. 
Copy-right, tlie right which an author 
may be supposed to have in his own origi- 
nal literary compositions ; so that no other 
person, without his leave, may publish or 
make profit of the copies. When a man, 
by the exertion of his rational powers, has 
produced an original work, he has clearly 
a right to dispose of that identical work as 
he pleases ; and any attempt to take it from 
him, or vary the disposition he has made of 
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it, is an invasion of his right of property. 
Now the identity of a literary composition 
consists entirely in the sentiment and the 
language 5 the same conceptions, clothed in 
the same words, must necessarily be the 
same composition : and whatever method 
be taken of conveying that composition to 
the ear, or to the eye of another, by reci- 
tal, by writing, or by printing, in any num- 
ber of copies, or at any period of time, it 
is always the identical work of the author 
which is so conveyed ; and no other man (it 
hath been thought) can have a right to con- 
vey or transfer it, without his consent ei- 
ther tacitly or expressly given. This con- 
sent may, perhaps, be tacitly given when 
an author permits his work to be published 
without any reserve of right, and without 
stamping on it any marks of ownership ; it 
is then a present to the public, like the 
building of a church, or the laying out a 
new highway : but in case of a bargain for 
a single impression, or a total sale or gift of 
the copy-right ; in the one case the rever- 
sion hath been thought to continue in the 
original proprietor; in the other the whole 
property, with its exclusive rights, to be 
perpetually transferred to the grantee. On 
the other hand it is urged, that though the 
exclusive right of the manuscript, and all 
which it contains, belongs undoubtedly to 
the owner before it is printed or published ; 
yet from the instant of publication the ex- 
clusive right of an author, or his assigns, to 
the sole communication of his ideas imme- 
diately vanishes and evaporates, as being a 
right of too subtle and unsubstantial a na- 
ture to become the subject of property at 
the common law, and only capable of be- 
ing guarded by positive statute and special 
provisions of the magistrate. 
COR Caroli, in astronomy, an extra-con- 
stellated star in the northern hemisphere, si- 
tuated between the Coma Berenices, and 
Ursa Major, so called by Dr. Halley in ho- 
nour of King Charles. 
Cor Hydres, a fixed star of the first mag- 
nitude, in the constellation of Hydra. 
Cor Leonis, or Regulus, in astronomy, a 
fixed star of the first magnitude, in the con- 
stellation Leo. 
CORACIAS, the roller, in natural his- 
tory, a genus of birds of the order Piem. 
Generic character: bill straight, bending 
towards the tip, sharp edged, the base 
naked of feathers ; tongue cartilaginous and 
bifid ; legs short ; feet formed for walking, 
three toes before and one behind, divided 
throughout. Tliere are, according to Gme- 
