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naive

Having native or unaffected simplicity ingenuous artless frank as naiumlve manners a naiumlve person naiumlve and unsophisticated remarks

Court-leet

granted by charter to the lords of those hundreds or manors. Its original intent was to view the frank pledges, that is, the freemen within the liberty who, according to the institution of Alfred, were all mutually

Customary freeholds

note has been preserved unaltered from the previous edition of the Lexicon. ' Also denominated, privileged copyholds of frank tenure; they were known inancient times as estates inprivileged villenage or villein socage, and are estates held by

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Estate

the Statute De Donis, which may be (i.) general or special, (ii.) male or female, (iii.) given in frank-marriage. (B) Freeholds not of inheritance, sub-divided into-- (a) Conventional, or created by the act of the parties; they

Fraunc, or Fraunke Ferme

Fraunc, or Fraunke Ferme. See FRANK-FERM.

Freeborough-men

Freeborough-men, such great men as did not engage like the frank-pledge men for their decennier, Jac. Law dict.

Salic

Of or pertaining to the Salian Franks or to the Salic law so called

Outlawry

actions he only represents persons capable of contracting, and under the protection of the law, See Ex parte Franks, (1831) 7 Bing. at p. 767.

Hundred

to King Alfred, and he may possibly have introduced it into England, though it was established among the Franks in the sixth century. In the capitularies of Charlemagne we meet with it in the form known among

Continuity of work

such labour, materials and equipment as are needed in order to complete the works in a reasonable time, Franks & Collingwood (a firm) v. Gates, (1983) 1 Con LR 21 (25).

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