frankpledge 的定义
Old English Law.
- a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- a member of a tithing.
- the tithing itself.
更多frankpledge例句
- Headborough, Borsholder, and Chief-Frankpledge are three words which describe the same functionary.
- It is not unlikely that the whole system of frankpledge grows out of this requirement.
- The servants of the Crown were not, as now, bound in frankpledge for each other.
- The sheriff held his turn twice a year and viewed frankpledge once a year.
- A similar conclusion has been reached as to Canute's responsibility for the institution known as frankpledge.