Enfranchisement
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Giving freedom to a person. Admitting a person to the freedom of a city. A denizen of England, or a citizen of London, is said to be enfranchised. So, too, a villein is enfranchised when he obtains his freedom from his lord.
Termes de la Ley; 11 Co. 91.
The word is now used principally either of the manumission of slaves {q. v.), of giving to a borough or other constituency a right to return a member or members to parliament, or of the conversion of copyhold into freehold. Moz. & W. L. Diet