Frankalmoin

Frankalmoin: 1) An ecclesiastical tenure by which a monastery or other ecclesiastical corporation holds property under the obligation of saying prayers for the souls of the donor and his family.

(Hogue, Arthur R. Origins of the Common Law, 256)

2) The tenure of lands or tenements granted to those who had devoted themselves to the service of God, "for pure and perpetual alms". The service rendered by the grantee was the service of prayer, particularly for the souls of the grantor and his kin.

(Warren, W.L. Henry II, 634)

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