† wreck-freeadj.
Obsolete.
Exempted or free from the forfeiture of wrecked vessels and goods.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [adjective] > having specific immunities or privileges
wreck-free1205
wrackfree1570
unlicensed1644
clergyable1762
1205 Rot. Chart. (1837) 153/2 Cum socca & sacca & thol & theam & infangeneth[ef] & wrecfri & witefri & lestagefri & locofri.
1278 Charter to Cinque Ports in A. Clarke & F. Holbrooke Rymer & Sanderson's Fœdera (1816) I. ii. 558/1 Et quod habeant infangenethef; & quod sint wrecfry, & wytefry & lestagefry.
1598 R. Hakluyt tr. Charter Edward I in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 117 [tr. quot. 1278], That they shall be wreckefree, lastagefree, and louecopfree. [1706 Phillips (Wrec-fry); and in later Dicts.]
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