Legal Term Dictionary

A special privilege conferred by government upon an individual or corporation, and which does not belong to the citizens of the country generally, of common right It is essential to the character of a franchise that it should be a grant from the sovereign authority, and in this country no More...

A special privilege conferred by government upon an individual or corporation, and which does not belong to the citizens of the country generally, of common right It is essential to the character of a franchise that it should be a grant from the sovereign authority, and in this country no franchise can be held which is not derived from a law of the atate. In England, a franchise is defined to be a royal privilege in the hands of a subject. In this country, it is a privilege of a public nature, which cannot he exercised without a legislative grant See Bank of Augusta v. Earle, 13 Pet. 595, 10 I* Ed. 274; Dike v. State, 38 Minn. 306, 38 N. W. 95; Chicago Board of Trade v. People, 91 111. 82; Lasher v. People, 183 111. 226, 5$ N. E. 663, 47 L. R. A. 802, 75 Am. St. Rep. 103; Southampton v. Jessup, 162 N. Y. 122, 56 N. E. 538; Thompson v. People, 23 Wend. Less...

France. Bract, fol. 427b.

France. Bract, fol. 427b. Less...

A man born in France. A designation formerly given to aliens in England.

A man born in France. A designation formerly given to aliens in England. Less...

L. Lat Free; a freeman; a Frank. Spelman. -Franons bancus. Free bench, (q. v.)- Francus homo. In old European law. A free man. Domesday.-Franons plegius. In old English law. A frank pledge, or free pledge. See FRANK-PLEDGE.-Francus tenons. A freeholder. See FRANK-TENEMENT.

L. Lat Free; a freeman; a Frank. Spelman. -Franons bancus. Free bench, (q. v.)- Francus homo. In old European law. A free man. Domesday.-Franons plegius. In old English law. A frank pledge, or free pledge. See FRANK-PLEDGE.-Francus tenons. A freeholder. See FRANK-TENEMENT. Less...

v. To send matter through the public malls free of postage, by a personal or official privilege.

v. To send matter through the public malls free of postage, by a personal or official privilege. Less...

adj. In old English law. Free. Occurring in several compounds. -Frank-almoigne. In English law. Free alms. A spiritual tenure whereby religious corporations, aggregate or sole, held lands of the donor to them and their successors forever. They were discharged of all other except religious services,' and the trinoda neceasitaa. It More...

adj. In old English law. Free. Occurring in several compounds. -Frank-almoigne. In English law. Free alms. A spiritual tenure whereby religious corporations, aggregate or sole, held lands of the donor to them and their successors forever. They were discharged of all other except religious services,' and the trinoda neceasitaa. It differs from tenure by divine service, in that the latter required the performance of certain divine services, whereas the former, as its name imports, is free. This tenure is expressly excepted in the 12 Car. II. c. 24, s 7, and therefore still subsists in some few instances. 2 Broom & H. Comm. 203.-Frank bank. In old English law. Free bench. Litt. f 166; Co. Litt. 1106. See FREE-BENCH.-Frank-chase. A liberty of free chase enjoyed by any one, whereby all other persons having ground within that compass are forbidden to cut down wood, etc., even in their own demesnes, to the prejudice of the owner of the liberty. Cowell. See CHASE.-Frank-fee. Freehold lands exempted from all services, but not from homage; lands held otherwise than in ancient demesne. That which a man holds to himself and his heirs, and not by such service as is required in ancient demesne, according to the custom of the manor. Cowell.-Franh ferm. In English law. A species of estate held in socage, said by Brit ton to be "lands and tenements whereof the nature of the fee is changed by feoffment out of chivalry for certain yearly services, and in respect whereof neither homage, ward, marriage, nor relief can be demanded." Britt c 66; 2 Bl. Comm. 80.-Frank-fold. In old English law. Free-fold; a privilege for the lord to have all the sheep of his tenants and the inhabitants within his seigniory, in his fold, in his demesnes, to manure his land. Keilw. 198. -Frank-law. An obsolete expression signifying the rights and privileges of a citizen, or the liberties and civic rights of a freeman.- Frank-marriage. A species of entailed estates, in English law, 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. For the word "frank-marriaee," 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 passed between the issues of the donor and donee, when they were capable by the law of the church of intermarrying. Litt. {19; 2 Bl. Comm. 115.-Frank-pledge. In old English law. A pledge or surety for freemen; that is, the pledge, or corporate responsibility, of all the inhabitants of a tithing for the general good behavior of each free-born citizen above the age of fourteen, and for his being forthcoming to answer any infraction of the law. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.-Frank-tenant. A freeholder. Litt. | 91.-Frank-tenement. In English law. A free tenement, freeholding, or freehold. 2 Bl. Comm. 61, 62, 104; 1 Steph. Comm. 217; Bract, fol. 207. Used to denote both tbe tenure and the estate. Less...

The privilege of sending certain matter through the public mails without payment of postage, in pursuance of a personal or official privilege.

The privilege of sending certain matter through the public mails without payment of postage, in pursuance of a personal or official privilege. Less...

(spelled, also, "Francllng" and "Franklin.") A freeman; a freeholder; a gentleman. Blount; Cowell.

(spelled, also, "Francllng" and "Franklin.") A freeman; a freeholder; a gentleman. Blount; Cowell. Less...

In old English law. A wood or wood-ground where ash-trees grow. Co. Litt. 4u.

In old English law. A wood or wood-ground where ash-trees grow. Co. Litt. 4u. Less...

In the civil law. A brother. Frater consanguincua, a brother having the same father, but born of a different mother. Frater utcrinua, a brother born of the same mother, but by a different father. Frater nutriciu8f a bastard brother. Frater fratrl ntorino non suoeedot in hsereditato paterna. A brother shall More...

In the civil law. A brother. Frater consanguincua, a brother having the same father, but born of a different mother. Frater utcrinua, a brother born of the same mother, but by a different father. Frater nutriciu8f a bastard brother. Frater fratrl ntorino non suoeedot in hsereditato paterna. A brother shall not succeed a uterine brother in the paternal inheritance. 2 Bl. Comm. 223; Fortes, de Laud. c. 5. A maxim of the common law of England, now superseded by the statute 3 & 4 Wm. IV. c. 106, | 9. See Broom, Max. 530. Less...