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Frank-tenement [liberum tenementum, Lat.], a freehold estate....
Tenement
Tenement [fr. teneo, Lat., to hold], in its vulgar acceptation, is only applied to houses and other buildings, but in its original, proper, and legal sense, it signifies everything that may be holden, provided it be of a permanent nature, whether it be of a substantial and sensible, or of an unsubstantial, ideal kind. Thus liberum tenementum, frank tenement, or freehold, is applicable not only to lands and other solid objects, but also to offices, rents, commons, advowsons, franchises, peerages, etc, 2 Bl. Com. 16. 'Tenement' may denote the estate is as well as the land. Halsb. L.E., tit. 'Real Property.'Local authorities sometimes refer to separately rated parts of houses or flats s tenements.1. Properly (esp. land) held by freehold; an estate or holding of land 2. A house or other building used as a residence, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn.Means the property especially land, held by free-hold, an estate or holding of land, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn., p. 14801. Properly (esp. ...
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-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....
freehold
freehold [translation of Anglo-French frank tenement freehold estate] : a tenure of real property the duration of which cannot be determined and by which an estate in fee simple or fee tail or for life is held ;also : an estate held by such tenure compare leasehold freehold adj or adv ...
Freehold
Freehold, one of the two chief tenures known in ancient times by the phrase 'tenure in free socage,' and the only free lay-mode of holding property. It is derived from the feudal system, but the services connected with it were honourable and mild. The annihilation of the feudal severities has left this tenure unshackled, and by far the greater part of the real property in this country is freehold.Such an interest in lands of frank tenement as may endure not only during the owner's life, but which is cast after his death upon the persons who successively represent him. Such persons were called heirs, and he whom they thus represented, the ancestor. When the interest extended beyond the ancestor's life, it was called a freehold of inheritance, and when it only endured for the ancestor's life, it was a freehold not of inheritance.An estate to be a freehold must possess these two qualities: (1) immobility, that is, the property must be either land or some interest issuing out of or annexed...
Liberum tenementum
Liberum tenementum, a frank tenement or freehold. The plea of liberum tenementum, commonly pleaded by the defendant in an action of trespass, was the only case of usual occurrence in more modern practice, in which the allegation of a general freehold title in lieu of a precise allegation of title was sufficient. It was sustained by proof of any estate of freehold, whether in fee, in tail, or for life only, and whether in possession or expectant on determination of a term of years, but it did not apply to the case of a freehold estate in remainder or reversion, expectant on a particular estate of freehold, nor to copyhold tenure, Stephen on Pleading, 7th Edn. 257. Obsolete. See now PLEADING....
Dominant tenement
Dominant tenement, a term used in the civil law, and thence in ours, and also in Scots law relating to servitude. It means the tenement or subject in favour of which the service or easement is constituted; as the tenement over which the servitude or easement extends is called the 'servient tenement.' See Bell's Dict.; Smith's Dict. of Antiq., tit. 'Servitidues '; and Gale or goddard on Easements...
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....
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