Frankmarriage (liberum maritagium) was a species of estate tail, where a man, on the marriage of his daughter or cousin or near blood-relation, gave lands to be held of the donor for four generations by the donees and heirs of their bodies.
Frankmarriage
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 4: Dionysius to Friction, p. 801
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