frankpledge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A form of collective suretyship and punishment under English law among the members of a tithing.
2. isim Any group so similarly answerable for the conduct of all its members and liable for collective punishment.

   “The servants of the Crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.”

3. isim A decener: a member of a tithing bound in frankpledge.

   “Entire vills sir Henry Spelman conjectures to have consisted of ten freemen, or frank-pledges.”

4. isim The tithing itself.