frank-marriage

English

Etymology

frank (“free”) + marriage

Noun

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

1. (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