| 单词 | free marriage |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfree marriage free marriage n. [compare post-classical Latin maritagium liberum (frequently from early 12th cent. in British sources), maritagium liberale (a1200 in a British source); compare earlier frank-marriage n.] now historical = frank-marriage n.; (also) land or property held in frank marriage. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] > joint tenure > by husband and wife frank-marriagec1150 free marriagea1325 jointure1451 a1325 Statutes of Realm (2011) vii. 28 Also in cas ȝif ani ȝifez tenement oþer lond in fre mariage, wch ȝift hath condicion aioined. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1905) i. 129 (MED) Annore, somtyme the wyf of ser hugh Mortymer..of her owne wille and of her fre mariage, yaf..all the rentis and service..with all the londes of the bondmen. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 498 Henry fitz Raaf..and Pernell and denyse..yaf & cetera, into free mariage, with Denyse ther nece, to hugh Cyndatori, a mese in horsemongerstrete. 1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 168 Free marriage. 1839 J. Bouvier Law Dict. I. 430/1 It is called frank or free marriage, because the donees are liable to no service but fealty. This is now obsolete even in England. 1961 A. W. B. Simpson Introd. Hist. Land Law iii. 61 The donor might undertake to acquit the donee of liability for feudal services..and this could be effected by expressing the gift to be in frank or free marriage, instead of in marriage only. < as lemmas |
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