Free Alms

Free Alms
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)

Medieval glossary. 2014.

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  • free alms — The name of a species of tenure. See frank almoign …   Black's law dictionary

  • free alms — The name of a species of tenure. See frank almoign …   Black's law dictionary

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  • free alms — noun plural Etymology: Middle English fre almes, translation of Medieval Latin eleemosyna libera : frankalmoign …   Useful english dictionary

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  • tenure by free alms — Same as tenure in frankalmoign …   Ballentine's law dictionary

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