† frank bank Law. Obs.
Also 6 frank bench.
[a. AF. franc banc, = med.L. francus bancus: see frank a.2, bank n.2]
= free bench.
| [1419 Liber Albus i. ii. (Rolls) 68 Quæ habet francum bancum suum.] 1598 Kitchin Courts Leet (1675) 202 The Woman..shall have all the Copyhold whereof the Husband died seized for her Franck-bench. 1605–6 Act 3 Jas. I, c. 5 §11 The Widowes Estate and Frankbanck. 1651 G. W. tr. Cowel's Inst. 59 Tenants in Franck Banck. |