frankalmoigne

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

FRANKALMOIGNE, noun frankalmoin'. Free alms; in English law, a tenure by which a religious corporation holds lands to them and their successors forever, on condition of praying for the souls of the donor.
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