Frank Pledge
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
[L. Fr. fraunk pl^gge y L. Lat. francus plegius, francum plegium, franciplegium.] In English law. A free pledge; a decennary, tithmg or friborg; so called because every freeman composing it was d^ pledge or security for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace. Bract. fol.
124 b. Crohb's Hist, Eng, Law, 18.
A free surety; an inhabitant or member of a decennary, or friborg.
1 Bl, Com. 114,115.
I SUph. Com^WA. ^Bl.Com.
252. 2 Inst. 73.
See Francus plegius^ Friborg.