Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In English law, the right of a widow in her husband's copyhold lands, corresponding to dower in a freehold. Also called
frank-bank .
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In that cafe, though the hufband was nercr feifed of the legal eftate of the copyhold, yet the widow was decreed her free-bench.
Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the High Court of Chancery, and of Some Special Cases ... William Peere Williams 1793
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