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Freoborgh

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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Freoborghes, Freoborhes. Sax. [from freo, free, and borh, or borhes, a pledge.] In Saxon law. A free surety, or free pledge. Spelman, voc.

Friborga. 2 Inst. 73.

Lord Coke observes that the term free-borrow continued to be used in his day, in some places. Id. ibid.