Frank-Pledge
A Dictionary of Law · Henry Campbell Black · 1891
A Dictionary of Law
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 fortheoming to answer any infraction of the law. Termes de la Ley; Cowell.