"Generally speaking, no young tree is allowed to stand on copyhold land."
— Land

January 1, 1970

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Edward Coke, 3rd Rep. 15; reported in James William Norton-Kyshe, Dictionary of Legal Quotations (1904), p. 147. Hence the maxim, that "the oak scorns to grow except on free land."