The compleate copy-holder wherein is contained a learned discourse of the antiquity and nature of manors and copy-holds, vvith all things thereto incident, as surrenders, presentments, admittances, forfeitures, customes, &c. necessary both for the lord and tenant : together, with the forme of keeping a copy-hold court, and court baron / by Sir Edward Coke, Knight.

SEC. LXI.

IF the Lord doth any thing whereby hee doth acknowledge him his Tenant after forfeiture; this acknowledgement amoun∣teth to a Confirmation; as if he distreyneth upon the ground for Rent due after forfei∣ture; or if he admitteth after the forfeiture, or the like: these are estoppells to the Lord, so that he can never enter, so the Lord have notice of such forfeitures before any such act, which may amount to a confirmation be done, yet some make this difference, that these forfeitures onely which destroy not the

Copyhold are onely conformable by subse∣quent acknowledgement, and not those for∣feitures which tend to the destructions of a Copyhold, as if the Copyholder maketh a Feoffment; by this the Copyholder is de∣stroyed, and therefore no subsequent ac∣knowledgement of the Lord will ever salve this sore.

And this shall suffice for forfeitures. I come now in the last place, to shew what Acts a∣mount to the extinguishment of a Copy∣hold.