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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In Anglo-Saxon law, the franchise or governmental power of requiring the people to keep the peace; the jurisdiction to punish for breaches of the peace.
  • noun Hence, in later times The liberty of having a view of frank-pledge. See frank-pledge.

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