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accounting, Black's Law Dictionary, 7th Edn. As to lands, it only applied to such as were given in frank-marriage, thus: if one daughter have an estate given with her in frank-marriage by her ancestor, then, if lands

Frithsoke, frithsoken

Frithsoke, frithsoken, the right of liberty of frank-pledge, Fleta.

Tenure

made available for commercial enterprise. Such tenure was acquired by the distribution of lands by lot among the Franks. (2) Feudal (from od, possession, or estate, and feo, wages, pay), over which the owner had but a

Tenement

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,

Ringing the changes

he pretends it is not good, and, changing it, returns to the buyer a counterfeit one, as in Frank;s case, 2 Leach, 64:--A man having bargained with the prisoner, who was selling fruit about the street, to

Right patent

Right patent. An obsolete writ which was brought for lands and tenements, and not for an advowson, or common, and lay only for an estate in fee-simple, and not for him who had a lesser estate,...

Overruling

not have laid down a contrary principle in a later case. Where and How to Find the Law, Frank Hall Childs, 94 (1922). Overruling assumes that a contrary decision is given on the same facts or law.

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