Frank Pledge - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: frank pledgeFrank-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....
Court-leet
Court-leet. [Coke says leet is a Saxon word, and comes from the verb gelathian, or gelethian (g being added euphoni' gratia), i.e., convenire, to assemble together, unde conventus, 4 Inst. 261. For other opinions as to the derivation of the word, see Lex Man. 131; Ritson on Courts-leet; and Scriv. On Copyholds.] This court is expressly kept up by s. 40 of the Sheriffs Act, 1887, though for all but formal purposes it has long since fallen into desuetude, and there is still an annual Court-leet of the Manor and Liberty of Savoy which meets at St. Clement Danes Vestry Hall, the High Steward of the Manor presiding, a jury being empannelled one month aftr Easter and serving for a year from that date, the court being held 'for the purpose of preventing small offences in the nature of a common nuisance,' and still having 'power to impose fines for certain offenes, such the stopping up of ways': Solicitor's Journal,Vol. 49, p. 493.The Court-leet is a court of record appointed to be held once a...
Borsholder
Borsholder, borough's ealder, tithing-man, or head-borough, supposed to be the discreetest man in the borough, town, or tithing. He was one of the principal inhabitants annually appointed to look after the rest, each separate community in the time of the Saxons being answerable as surety for the good behaviour of all its members, 1 Bl. Com. 114 (356).The chief of a tithing or frank pledge; Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn....
Demi-vill
Demi-vill, a town consisting of five freemen of frank-pledges, Spelman....
Freeborough-men
Freeborough-men, such great men as did not engage like the frank-pledge men for their decennier, Jac. Law dict....
Friborough, or frithburgh
Friborough, or frithburgh, the Norman term for frank-pledge....
Frith-borg
Frith-borg, frank-pledge, Cowel....
Frithsoke, frithsoken
Frithsoke, frithsoken, the right of liberty of frank-pledge, Fleta....
Laughe
Laughe, frank-pledge, 2 Reeves, 17....
Lawday
Lawday, a Court-leet, or view of frank-pledge....
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