Frankalmoigne
Defined in 3 dictionaries — Cyclopedic (1922), Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary
Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922
A species of ancient holds its lands of the donor, in consideration of the religious services it performs.- In the United States, religious corporations hold land by the same tenure with which all other corporations and individuals hold; and the only approach to a tenancy in frankalmoigne may be found in the exemption from taxation which is enjoyed by churches in common with charitable and scientific institutions.
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
In Englishlaw Free alms. A spiritnal tenure whereby religious corporations, aggregate or sole, held Janis of the donor to them and their succeasors forever, They were discharged of all) divine service, in that the latter required the performance of certain divine services, whereas the former, as its name imports, is frea. This tenure is expressly excepted in the 12 Car. IL. ¢. 24, § 7, and therefore still subsists in some fewinstances. 2 Broom & H. Comm. 2038. #