s defined to be a liberty of free chase, by which persons who possess lands within the compass of the same are prohibited from cutting down wood, &c. out of the view of the forester.

FRANK-Fee signifies the same thing as holding lands and tenements in fee simple; that is, to any person and his heirs, and not by such service as is required by ancient demesne, but is pleaded at common law.

FRANK-Law, a word applied to the free and common law of the land, or the benefit which a person has by it.

FRANK-Marriage, in Law, is where tenements are given by one man to another, together with a wife, who is the daughter or cousin of the donor, to hold in frank-marriage. By such a gift, although nothing but the word frank-marriage is expressed, the donees have the tenements to themselves and the heirs; that is, they are tenants in special tail. For the word frank-marriage not only denotes ex vi termini, an inheritance, like the word frank-almoigne, but likewise limits that inheritance, supplying not only words of descent, but also of procreation. Such donees in frank-marriage are liable to no service but fealty; for a rent reserved therein is void until the fourth degree of consanguinity be past between the issues of the donor and donee.

FRANK-Pledge, in Law, signifies a pledge or surety for the behaviour of freemen.