Enfranchisement

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 Coke, 91; Jacob.

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

The act of making free; giving a franchise or freedom to; investiture with privileges or capacities of freedom or municipal or political liberty. Admission to the freedom of a city; admission to political rights, and particularly the right of suffrage. Anciently, the acquisition of freedom by a villein from his lord. 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. Mozley & Whitley.

— Enfranchisement of copyholds. In English law. The conversion of copyhold into freehold tenure, by a conveyance of the fee-simple of the property from the lord of the manor to the copyholder, or by a release from the lord of all seigniorial rights, etc., which destroys the customary descent, and also nil rights and privileges annexed to the copyholder's estate. 1 Watk. Copyh. 362 ; 2 Steph. Comm. 51.'

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The act of making free; giving a franchise or freedom to; investiture with privileges or capacities of freedum, or municipal or political liberty. right of suffrage. Anciently, the acquisition of freedom by a villein from his lord. The word is now used principally either of the manumission of slaves, (q. v.,) of giving to a borough or other constituency a right ta return a member or metnbers to parliament, or of the conversion of copyhold into freehold. Mozley & Whitley. ENFRANCHISEMENT OF COPY-

Fr. & Eng. [from enfraunchir, q. v.] The act of making a person free, as a villein or bondman. Enfranchisement is a more general word than manumission, for that is properly applied to a villein. Every manumission is an enfranchisement, but every enfranchisement is not a manumission. Co. Litt. 137 b. The incorporating a person into any society or body politic, and thereby imparting to him its liberties and privileges. Cowell. Termes de la ley. 11 Co. 9. The making a man free of a company or corporation. Co. Litt. 137 b.