A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents. … [Read more...]
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TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A French coin of the value of a little over eighteen cents. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
(spelled, also, "Francllng" and "Franklin.") A freeman; a freeholder; a gentleman. Blount; Cowell. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
In French feudal law. An allod; a free inheritance; or an estate held free of any services except such as were due to the sovereign. … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
English law. It takes place, according to Blackstone, when lands are given by one man to another, together with a wife who is daughter or kinswoman of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage. By this gift, though nothing but, the word frank-marriage is expressed, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten that is, they are tenants in … [Read more...]
TheLaw.com Law Dictionary & Black's Law Dictionary 2nd Ed.
A freeman. Chart Hen. IV. A free tenant Spelman. … [Read more...]