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Defined in 2 dictionaries — Ballentine's (1916), Black's (1891)
Ballentine's Law Dictionary
James A. Ballentine · 1916
Frank law, which see.
A Dictionary of Law
Henry Campbell Black · 1891
Inold English law. Free law; frank law; the law of the land. uished from such men as have lost the efit and protection of the law in conseence of crime, Hence this term denoted statis of aman who stood guiltless bethe fore the law, and was /ree, in the sense of bentitled to its full protection and benetit. Amittere liberam legem (to lose one's free Taw) was to fall (rom that status by crime or infamy. See Co. Litt. 940.