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Webster 1913 Edition
Frankpledge
Frank′pledgeˊ
,Noun.
[
Frank
free + pledge
.] (O. Eng. Law)
(a)
A pledge or surety for the good behavior of freemen, – each freeman who was a member of an ancient decennary, tithing, or friborg, in England, being a pledge for the good conduct of the others, for the preservation of the public peace; a free surety.
(b)
The tithing itself.
Bouvier.
The servants of the crown were not, as now, bound in
frankpledge
for each other. Macaulay.
Webster 1828 Edition
Frankpledge
FRANK'PLEDGE
,Noun.