Legal Dictionary of Pakistan
Quick lookup for English, Urdu, and Latin legal terms used in Pakistani jurisprudence.
Frank
n. 1. (cap.) A member of the Germanic people who conquered Gaul in the 6th century. ( France received its name from the Franks. 2. A signature, stamp, or mark affixed to mail as a substitute for postage. 3. The privilege of sending certain mail free of charge, accorded to members of Congress. - Also termed (in sense 3) franking privilege. - frank, vb.
Frankpledge
Hist. A promise given to the sovereign by a group of ten freeholders (a tithing) ensuring the group's good conduct. * The frankpledge was of Saxon origin, but continued after the Norman Conquest. The members of the group were not liable for an injury caused by an offending member, but they did act as bail to ensure that the culprit would appear in court. They were bound to produce a wrongdoer for trial. - Also termed laughe. See VlEW OF FRANKPLEDGE. Cf. DECENARY.
Franks hearing
A hearing to determine whether a police officer's affidavit used to obtain a search warrant that yields incriminating evidence was based on false statements by the police officer. Franks u. Delaware, 438 U.S. 154, 98 S.Ct. 2674 (1978).
Franks hearing.
See FRANKS HEARING.
detinue of goods in frankmarriage
Hist. A writ allowing a divorced wife to obtain the goods given to her during the marriage.
frank bank.
See FREE BENCH.
frank ferm.
Hist. An estate in land held in socage, the nature of the fee having been changed from knight's service by enfeoffment for certain yearly services. - Also spelled frank-ferme.
frank,
adj. [Law French] Hist. Free. Also spelled fraunc; fraunche; fraunke.
frank-chase.
Hist. Free chase; a person's liberty or right to hunt or log within a certain area. ( Others holding land within the frank-chase area were forbidden from hunting or logging in it. See CHASE.
frank-fee.
Hist. Freehold land - land that one held to oneself and one's heirs - exempted from all services except homage; land held other than by ancient demesne or copyhold.
frank-law.
Hist. The rights and privileges of a citizen or freeman; specif., the condition of being legally capable of giving an oath (esp. as a juror or witness). See LEGALIS HOMO."Frank law . . . may be understood from Bracton's description of the consequences of losing it, among which the principal one was, that the parties incurred perpetual infamy, so that they were never afterwards to be admitted to oath, because they were not deemed to be othesworth, (that is, not worthy of making oath,) nor allowed to give testimony." 1 Alexander M. Burrill, A Law Dictionary and Glossary 657-58 (2d ed. 1867).
frank-tenant.
Hist. A freeholder. Also termed francus tenens,
frank-tenement
Hist. A free tenement; a freehold. & This term described both the tenure and the estate.
frankalmoin
[Law French "free alms"] Hist. A spiritual tenure by which a religious institution held land, usu. in return for a nonenforceable duty to pray for the donor. ( This tenure differed from the tenure by divine service, which required the performance of certain divine services. - Also spelled frankalmoign; frankalmoigne. - Also termed almoign; almoin; free alms; libera eleemosyna. See spiritual tenure under TENURE. "Frankalmoin, or free alms, was a survival of AngloSaxon law, and implied simply an indefinite promise to pray for the soul of the donor; but since it was deemed a tenure by which the land was held, the general doctrine of 'services' was applied. On the other hand, in the case of Divine Service, which was much less frequently met with, the tenant promised a definite number of prayers, a duty which might be enforced in the King's courts." A.K.R. Kiralfy, Potter's Outlines of English Legal History 210 (5th ed. 1958).
franking privilege
See FRANK (3)
franklin
Hist. A freeman; a freeholder; a gentleman. - Also spelled francling; frankleyn; frankleyne.
frankmarriage.
Hist. An entailed estate in which the donor retains control of the, land by refusing to accept feudal services from the donee (usu. the donor's daughter) for three generations. a If the donee's issue fail in that time, the land returns to the donor. A donor who accepted homage (and the corresponding services arising from it) from the donee risked losing control of the land to a collateral heir. After three generations - a time considered sufficient to demonstrate that the line was well established - the donee's heir could insist on paying homage; doing so transformed the estate into a fee simple. - Also termed liberum mantagium. See MARITAGIUM.
view of frankpledge
Hist. The twice-yearly gathering and inspection of every freeman within the district who was more than 12 years old to determine whether each one had taken the oath of allegiance and had found 9 freeman pledges for his peaceable demeanor. See FRANKPLEDGE.