Law. Tenure by gift of charity, spec. perpetual tenure by free gift of charity without secular obligations; = frankalmoign, n. (chiefly as in alms)…

= frankalmoign, n. Sometimes in the fuller form free almoign (formerly also, in Scots and northern English, in the plural form free almons). Cf. free…

a gift of land, property, etc., given in perpetuity; cf. frankalmoign, n.

= frankalmoign, n.

A feudal tenure in England by which a religious body could hold land perpetually, in principle without any secular obligations, in return for the…