served for his own use; but of these part were held by tenants in copyhold, i. ec., those holding by a copy of the record in the lord’s court; and part, under the name of the “lord’s waste,” served for public roads and commons of pasture for the lord and tenants. The tenants, considered in their relation to the court-baron and to each other, were called “pares curiae.” The word also signified the franchise of having a manor, with jurisdiction for a court-baron and the right to the rents and services of copyholders.