Most former electors and every leaseholder and every copyholder were now excluded.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
The copyholder and leaseholder were distinguished from the mere tenant-at-will, whose only right was to gather his growing crop when his landlord decided to terminate his tenancy.
"Our Legal Heritage, 4th Ed."
S. A. Reilly
Even a leaseholder, when his lease expired, had no prescriptive claim to renewal, but must take his chance at a rent-auction with strangers, the farm going to the highest bidder.
"The Framework of Home Rule"
Erskine Childers