The 'Man of Law's' Custance: Administrator of Frankalmoign

Author / Editor
Silar, Theodore I.

Title
The 'Man of Law's' Custance: Administrator of Frankalmoign

Published
Notes and Queries 242 (1997): 306-9.

Description
Citing examples from feudal law and practice, Silar argues that MLT 2.168 has a specific legal sense and should be translated "[Custance's] hand, in which the right to grant estates in the feudal tenure of frankalmoign."

Chaucer Subjects
Man of Law and His Tale.