Frodmortel
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Freomortel.
Sax. [from freo, free, and mortdaed, murder.] In Saxon law. An immunity or freedom granted for committing murder, or manslaughter. This word occurs in an old rhyming charter of King Athelstan to the chapel of St. Wilfrid of Rippon, quoted by Blount. Ilkan of ya stedes sal have peece Of Frodmortel, and ya deeds Yat yair don is —