frank-chasen.
/ˈfraŋktʃeɪs/, U.S. /ˈfræŋkˌtʃeɪs/ Law.
Free chase: see quot. 1641 and chase n.1 2.
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society > law > legal right > rights to do or use something > [noun] > forest rights
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the mind > possession > possessions > [noun] > real or immovable property > land > other types of land
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1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xix. i. 310 The franke chase..taketh something both of parke and forrest.
1594 R. Crompton L'Authoritie & Iurisdict. des Courts f. 239 Le ley de franke chase est, etc.]
1641 Rastell's Termes de la Ley (new ed.) f. 167 Francke chase is a liberty of Frank chase, by which all men having land within this compasse are prohibited to cut downe the wood, or discover, &c. without the view of the Forester, although it be his owne.
1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xvi. 39 None but the King can have a Forest; If he chance to passe one over to a Subject, 'tis no more Forest, but frank Chace.
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