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Webster 1913 Edition


Frank-marriage

Frank′-mar′riage

,
Noun.
[
Frank
free +
marriage
.]
(Eng. Law)
A certain tenure in tail special; an estate of inheritance given to a man his wife (the wife being of the blood of the donor), and descendible to the heirs of their two bodies begotten.
[Obs.]
Blackstone.

Definition 2024


frank-marriage

frank-marriage

English

Noun

frank-marriage (plural frank-marriages)

  1. (obsolete, Britain, law) A kind of estate tail.
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