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Definition of Frankpledge
1. n. A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, -- each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
Definition of Frankpledge
1. Noun. A legal system, based on tithings, in Anglo-Saxon England, in which members were held responsible for each other's conduct ¹
2. Noun. A member of such a tithing ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Frankpledge
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Literary usage of Frankpledge
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History by Dudley Julius Medley (1902)
"But in either case it was the duty of the township to see that its inhabitants
were in frankpledge : when any one of them was accused of a crime and was not ..."
2. Records of the Borough of Leicester: Being a Series of Extracts from the by Mary Bateson, William Henry Stevenson, John Edward Stocks (1901)
"1 Tithing-men or perhaps chief pledges in the several groups making a jury of
twelve freeholders for the frankpledge presentments. 3 Not put in frankpledge. ..."
3. A History of English Law by William Searle Holdsworth (1903)
"The commonest of these franchises in the I3th century is, as we have said, the
view of frankpledge or the court leet.1 This means that the sheriffs right to ..."
4. Publications of the Southampton Record Society by Southampton Record Society (1908)
"It has already been remarked that the very heart and centre of leet jurisdiction
was the right to hold the view of frankpledge.2 This, however, ..."
5. A Complete Body of Conveyancing: In Theory and Practice by Edward Wood (1793)
"... free war- ; ta, and view of frankpledge, and whatever belongs to view of
frank- ; pledge, with the appurtenance?, ..."
6. Surveys, Historic and Economic by William James Ashley (1900)
"The frankpledge is an institution of whose practical working we are still waiting
an explanation. Recent English constitutional historians seem to fight shy ..."
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