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The court customary, or halmote court, was the equivalent of the court baron for the lord's unfree tenants. As the use of the court baron declined the halmote court became the predominant type of manorial court, and gradually the court's distinction between free and unfree tenants disappeared.

The last serfs in England were freed in the reign of Elizabeth I.

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