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A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Franclein, Frankleyne. L. Fr. & O. Eng. [L. Lat. franchilanus.] In old English law. A freeholder, freeman or gentleman, (libertus, libertinus, municeps;) the opposite of a villein. Fortescue de Laudibus Legum Angliae, c.

29, note (m).

Du Cange, voc.

Franchilanus.