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Home Dictionary Name: frank fermFrank-ferm
Frank-ferm, lands or tenements changed in the nature of the fee by feoffment, etc., out of knight service, for certain yearly acknowledgements, Britton, c. lxiv....
Fraunc, or Fraunke Ferme
Fraunc, or Fraunke Ferme. See FRANK-FERM....
Ferm
Rent for a farm a farm also an abode a place of residence as he let his land to ferm...
Farm or ferm
Farm or ferm [fr. firma, Lat.; feorme, Sax., food, and feorman, to feed], land taken upon lease under a rent, generally annual, payable by the tenant. It is a collective word, consisting of many things, as a messuage, land, meadow, pasture, wood, common, etc. In Lancashire a farm was called fermholt; in the north, a tack; and in Essex, a wike, Termes de la Ley....
Ferm, or fearm
Ferm, or fearm, a house or land or both, let by lease....
Frank-marriage
Frank-marriage [in libero maritagio, Lat.], a species of entailed estates, now grown out of use, but still capable of subsisting. When tenements are given by one to another, together with a wife, who is a daughter or cousin of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage, the donees shall have the tenements to them and the heirs of their two bodies begotten, i.e., in special tail, without the words of limitation such as 'heirs of his body.' The legal estate in estates tail has been abolished by L.P. Act, 1925, s. 1, and see s. 130, ibid. for the words of limitation necessary to create an equitable interest in tail. For the word frank-marriage, ex vi termini, both creates and limits an inheritance, not only supplying words of descent, but also terms of procreation. The donees are liable to no service except fealty, and a reserved rent would be void until the fourth degree of consanguinity be past between the issues of the donor and donee, when they were capable by the law of the church of inter...
Frank
Frank. Members of Parliament, peers, etc., formerly had the privilege of franking their letters by autograph. It was abolished upon the introduction of the penny postage by 3 & 4 Vict. c. 96.A member of Germanic People who conquered land in 6th contrary, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 669....
Frank-pledge
Frank-pledge, a surety to the sovereign for the good behaviour of freemen. Living under frank-pledge has been termed living under law, Fleta, i. 47. See Court-LEET.A promise given to sovereign by a group of ten free holders (a tithing) ensuring the groups good conduct, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 670....
Franks hearing
Franks hearing see hearing ...
Frankly
In a frank manner freely...
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