liberum maritagium

liberum maritagium
Frankmarriage. An estate in liberum maritagium or frankmarriage was a kind of entailed estate where a tenement was given by one man to another, together with a wife, who was the daughter or cousin of the donor, to hold in frankmarriage; that is, the donees were to have the tenement to them, and the heirs of their two bodies begotten and they were tenants in special tail. See 2 Bl Comm 115.

Ballentine's law dictionary. . 1998.

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