资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Frank-law \Frank"-law`\, n. [Frank free + law.] (Eng. Law)
   The liberty of being sworn in courts, as a juror or witness;
   one of the ancient privileges of a freeman; free and common
   law; -- an obsolete expression signifying substantially the
   same as the American expression {civil rights}. --Abbot.