frank-fee

English

Noun

frank-fee (plural frank-fees)

1. (UK, law) A species of tenure in fee simple, being the opposite of ancient demesne, or copyhold.
   • 1834, John Scriven, A Treatise on Copyholds:

     if the lord confirm to the tenant , to hold freely , by the services before due , this makes the land frank-fee

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “frank-fee”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)