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FRANK-MARRIAGE

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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...]

FRANCHILANUS

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A freeman. Chart Hen. IV. A free tenant Spelman. … [Read more...]

FRANK-TENEMENT

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estates. Same as freehold, or liberum tenementum. … [Read more...]

FRANCHISE

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A special privilege conferred by government upon an individual or corporation, and which does not belong to the citizens of the country generally, of common right It is essential to the character of a franchise that it should be a grant from the sovereign authority, and in this country no franchise can be held which is not derived from a law of the atate. In England, a … [Read more...]

FRASSETUM

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In old English law. A wood or wood-ground where ash-trees grow. Co. Litt. 4u. … [Read more...]

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