Law. Obs. [a. AF. franke ferme: see FRANK a.2 and FARM sb.2] Freehold tenure at a fixed rent.
1767. Blackstone, Comm., II. 81. It was thought, in the reigns of both Edward I and Charles II, a point of the utmost importance and value to the tenants, to reduce the tenure by knight-service to fraunke ferme or tenure by socage.
