Law. Obs. Also 6 frank bench. [a. AF. franc banc, = med.L. francus bancus: see FRANK a.2, BANK sb.2] = FREE BENCH.
[1419. Liber Albus, I. ii. (Rolls), 68. Quæ habet francum bancum suum.]
1598. Kitchin, Courts Leet (1656), 200. The Woman being espoused a Virgin, shall have all the copy-hold, whereof the Husband died seised for her frank-bench.
1605–6. Act 3 Jas. I., c. 5 § 11. The Widowes Estate and Frankbanck.
1651. W. G., trans. Cowel’s The Institutes of the Lawes of England, 95. The same is to be understood of Tenants in Franck Banck.
