Category: F

CHANCERY. In

FEE FUND. A fund in the, Euglish court of chancery into which tbe fees

Lat He follows up or pursues; he prosecutes. See Now Psos

Lat To follow up or pur sue; to sue or prosecute. See Nolle Prose-QUI

In old Scotch practlce. Fyled; found guilty. See Fruc

A bow-net for catching fish. Pub. St Mass. 1882, p. 1291

In old Scotch law. To defile; to declare foul or defiled. Hence, to find a prisoner guilty

one of the fines incurred for homicide

or FUST. A Celtic word, meaning a wood or forest

This term has grown out of those purely speculative transactions, in which there ls a nominal contract of sale for

See Estate

In Scotch law. A debt which is created, bnt which will not he-come due till a future day. 1 Bell, Comm

In old English law. A heating with sticks or clubs; oue of the an-cient kinds of punishment of malefactors. Bract fol. 104b, lib. 3, tr. 1, c. 6

In old English law. A staff, used in making livery of seisin. Bract, fol. 40

In old Eng-lish law. Time to advise or take counsel, Jacob

This term includes that whlch furnishes, or with which anything is furnished or supplied; whatever must be supplied to a house, a room, or the like, to make it habitable, convenient, or agreeable; goods, vessels, utensils, and other append-ages necessary or convenient for housekeep-lng; whatever Is added to the interior of a house or apartment, […]

Leave of absence; especially, leave given to a military or naval of* ficer, or soldier or seaman, to be absent from service for a certain time. Also the document granting leave of absence

See Fobnaoium; Four

A measure of length, be-lng forty poles, or one-eighth of a mile

Lat. Au insane man; a madman; a lunatic

A furlong, or a furrow one-eighth part of a mile long. Co. Litt 5b

A fine or mulct paid for theft

In Scotch law. Madness, as distinguished from fatuity or Idiocy

Lat. An tnten-tion of stealing

In old English law. A fork. A gallows or gibbet. Bract, fol. 56

Movable goods which may be estimated and replaced accord-ing to welght, measure, and number. Things belonging to a class, which do not have to be dealt with in specie

Lat. In the civil law. Fungible things. See that title

In tbe civil and old English law. Land; land or ground generally; land

Money expend-ed in procuring the interment of a corpse

Lands of inheritance

Pioneers. Jacob

A founder, (q. v

See Ebbob

The law which determines the constitution of government in a state, and prescribes and regulates the manner of its exercise; the organic law of a state; the constitution

we found. ‘ one of the words by which a corporation may be created ln England. 1 Bl. Comm. 473; 3 Steph. Comm. 173

A public officer or employs. An oflicer of a private corporation is also sometimes so called

Lat. Having ful-fllled the function, discharged the ofiice, or accomplished the purpose, and therefore of no further force or authority. Applied to an officer whose term lias expired, and who has consequently no further official authority; and also to an instrument, power, agency, etc., which has fulfilled the purpose of Its creation, and is therefore […]

office; duty; fulfillment of a definite end or set of ends by the correct adjustment of means. The occupation of an office. By the performance of its duties, the officer is said to fill hls function. Dig. 32, 65, 1. See State v. Hyde, 121 Ind. 20, 22 N. E. 644

In old English iaw. The same as fuage, or smoke farthings. 1 Bl. Comm. 324. See Fuage

A fleam, or stream of water. Blount

one who flees; always nsed ln law with the implication of a flight, evd-sion, or escape from some duty or penalty or from the consequences of a misdeed

In the clvil law. A fugl-tive: a runaway slave. Dig. 11, 4; Cod. 6

Fr. In medical jurlspru-dence. Ambulatory automatism. See Au-tomatism

In Scotch practice. To outlaw, by the sentence of a court; to out-law for non-appearance in a criminal case. 2 Alls. Crim. Pr. 350

In old English law. A priv-ilege to hunt. Blount

A chase. Blount

Lat. He has made flight; he fled. A clause inserted in an ln-qulsltion, in old English law’, meaning that a person indicted for treason or felony had fled. The effect of this is to make the party forfeit his goods absolutely, aud the profits of his lnnds until he has been pardoned or acquitted

In old English law. A drove of cattle. Blount

In old English law. Flight. It is of two kinds: (1) Fuer in fnit. or in facto, where a person does apparently and corporally flee; (2) fuer in leg. or in lege

In Spanish law. A law; a code