Source : 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.

Source : WordNet®

civil rights
     n : right or rights belonging to a person by reason of
         citizenship including especially the fundamental freedoms
         and privileges guaranteed by the 13th and 14th amendments
         and subsequent acts of Congress including the right to
         legal and social and economic equality [syn: {civil right}]