Frectare
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law · Frederic Jesup Stimson · 1881
Glossary of Technical Terms, Phrases, and Maxims of the Common Law
/. To freight. Frectum: freight. Free alms: Frankalmoign. Free bench: dower in copyhold lands; usually a third or fourth part of the land, to be held dum sola et casta vixerit. Free fold; v. Frank/old.
Freehold: 1.
Such an estate as a freeman might accept, i. e. an estate for life or inheritance, not a leasehold.
2.
An estate in free socage, not copyhold or villeinage.
Freeman: 1.
A freeholder, not a villein.
2.
One enjoying full privileges of citizenship. Free pledge: v. Frank-pledge. Free services: such as a soldier or freeman might perform, not base, uncertain, or villeinous. Free ships: ships of a neutral nation in time of war. Free socage: a tenure by free and certain services, not military; v. Socage. Free tenure: freehold; tenure by free services. Free warren: a regal franchise granted a subject to preserve beasts of warren. Freight The price paid for transporting goods.