Law. [a. AFr.; see FRANK a.2 and TENEMENT.] = FREEHOLD. So Frank-tenure [see TENURE].
[1292. Britton, III. ii. § 2. Brefs de dreit de mariages ne sount mie fraunc tenement.]
1523. Fitzherb., Surv., 14. Yet haue they no franke tenement bycause of the commen lawe, and therfore they be called tenantes of base tenur.
1592. West, 1st Pt. Symbol., § 41 B. An estate of franktenement, is where a man hath the freehold of land.
1600. Holland, Livy, XXI. xlv. (1609), 419. To enjoie to them and their heires for ever, as freehold in frank tenure.
1643. Sir J. Spelman, Case of Affairs, 6. Yet does not he deprive the Lord of his Lordship in the Copy hold, nor participate with him in it, neither yet devest the Fee and Frank-tenement out of the lord.
fig. 1593. Harvey, Supererog., Wks. (Grosart), II. 229. See, how the daggletaild rampalion bustleth for the frank-tenement of the dung-hill.
