frank-marriage

English

Etymology

frank (“free”) + marriage

Noun

frank-marriage (countable and uncountable, plural frank-marriages)

(obsolete, UK, law) A form of conditional marriage-gift of land under English law, often from father to daughter.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC:
  an estate given with her in frank marriage by her ancestor

Alternative forms

frankmarriage

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