Law of Property Act 1922

128 Enfranchisement of copyholds.

(1) As from the commencement of this Act, every parcel of copyhold land shall by virtue of this Act be enfranchised and cease to be of copyhold or customary tenure, and land so enfranchised is in this Act referred to as enfranchised land.

(2) The enfranchisement by virtue of this Part 01 this Act shall have the effect stated in the Twelfth Schedule to this Act:

Provided that (save as otherwise expressly provided) nothing in this Part of this Act shall affect the following manorial incidents; that is to say—

(a) quit rents and chief rents and other similar rents-or payments;

(b) fines, reliefs, heriots, and dues (including fees payable to stewards);

(c) forfeitures, other than forfeitures for the conveyance or attempted conveyance of an estate of freehold in the land, and for alienation without licence whether by way of sale, lease, mortgage or otherwise;

(d) rights as to timber;

and accordingly (subject to the provisions of this Act) the enfranchised land and the persons for the time being entitled thereto shall, until the manorial incidents so saved are extinguished, remain subject thereto in like manner as if the land had not been enfranchised ; but so that in lieu of any chattel liable to be seized as a heriot a sum equal to the value thereof shall be payable.

(3) Modes of assurance authorised by special custom are hereby abolished; and all land (including land held in free tenure but subject to custom) shall be dealt with as land held in free and common socage discharged from custom.