Category: F

Faithful. Tenants by knight serv-ice swore to thelr lords to be feal and leal

In tbe oivil law. Negligence; want of care. An lmproper act or omission, Injurious to another, and transpiring through negligence, rashness, or ignorance

In old English law. A

Iu French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town ad-joining the principal city; a suburb. See City Couucil of Lafayette v. Holland, 18 La. 286

(Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclos-ing a portion or arm of the sea within them. 1 Kent, Comm. 367, and note; Hale, De Jure Mar. 10; The Harriet, 1 Story, 251, 259, Fed. Cas. No. 6,099

An idiot , pr fool. Bract foL 420b

one entirely des-tltute of reason; is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48

A whore. Du Fresne

In old English law. Fa-tnity; idiocy. Reg. orig. 266

Lat. Fate; a superhuman pow-er; an event or cause of loss, beyond human foresight or means of prevention

A nautical measure of six feet in length. Occasionally used as a super-ficial measure of land and ln mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-six square feet. Nahaolelua v. Kaaa-hu, 9 Hawaii, 60L

or FASTING-MEN

In Roman law. Lawful. Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice could lawfully be administered by the praetor. See Dies Fasti

A day of fasting and pen-itence, or of mortification by religious absti-nence. See 1 Chit Archh. Pr. (12th Ed.) 160, et seq

See Estats

In old English law. A faggot of wood

Lat . An ill-com-posed book containing a collection of mlscel-laneous subjects not properly associated nor scientifically arranged, wharton

The fourth part of an Eng-lish penny

An unlawful game of cards, ln which all the other players play against the banker or dealer, staking thelr money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pack, webster; ward v. State, 22 Ala. 19; U. S. v. Smith, 27 Fed. Cas. 1149; Patterson v. State, 12 Tex. […]

A mill; a toll of meal or floor. Jacob; Spelman

Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot. It was often applied to the best chattel, as dlstlngulshed from heriot, the best beast. Cowell

whoremongers and adulterers

RE. A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Cowell

The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman

In old Eugllsh law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, $ 10

In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy says an eighth only, because, according to hlm, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land, wharton

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene

ER, or FAKIR. A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religions beggar

In Spanish law. A measure of land varylng ln dlfferent provinces, but in tbe Spanish settlements ln America con-slating of 6,400 square varas or yards

Persons pretending to be Inspired, and being a general name for Quakers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the Church of England. (SL 13 Car. U. c. 6.) Jacob

In the clvil and old Engllsh law. i Relating to or affecting character or reputation; defamatory; slanderous

A collective body of .persons who live ln one house and under one head or management. Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App. 459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge v. Boston A P. It Corp., 154 Mass. 299. 28 N. E. 243, 13 L. R. A. 318; Tyson v. Reynolds, 52 Iowa, 431, 3 N. W. […]

In Roman law. An Intermediate person who purchased the aggregate lnheritance when sold per ms ei libram, in the process of making a will un-der the Twelve Tables. This purchaser was merely a man of straw, transmitting the In-heritance to the hares proper. Brown

In Roman law. A house* hold; a family, on the composition of the Roman family, see Aonati; Coon ati; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law, I 144

A killer of reputation; a slanderer

Lat Fame; character; reputa-tion; report of common opinion

Lat. False; fraudulent; erroneous. Deceitful; mlstaken

A forger; a counterfeiter. Hov. 424

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In Scotch law. False making ; forgery. “Falsing of evid ent is.” 1 Pltc. Crim. Tr. pt 1, p. 85

To disprove; to prove to be false or erroneous; to avoid or defeat; spok-en of verdicts, appeals, etc

EN. Fraudulent suboma-tlon or concealment, with design to darken or hide the truth, and make things appear otherwise than they are. It is committed (1) by words, as when a witness swears falsely; (2) by writing, as when a person antedates a contract; (3) by deed, as sell-lug by false weights and measures, whar-ton. See […]

A statement or assertion known to be untrue, and intended to deceive. X willful act or declaration contrary to the truth. Putnam v. osgood, 51 N. H. 207

In Spanish law. Falsity; an alteration of the truth. Las Partidas, pt. 3, tlt 26, 1. 1

Untrue; erroneous; deceitful; contrived or calculated to deceive and in-jure. Unlawful. Iu law, this word means something more than untrue; lt means something designedly untrue and deceitful, and implies an intention to perpetrate some treachery or fraud. Hatcher v. Dunn, 102 Iowa, 411, 71 N. W. 343, 36 L. R. A. 689; Mason v. Association, […]

A counterfeiter. Townsh, Pl. 260

In old Engllsh law. To counterfeit. Quia falsavit sigillum, because he counterfeited the seal. Bract fol. 276b

In the clvll law. False or counterfeit money. Cod. 9, 24

In the civil law. False designation; erroneous descrip

In old English law. An un-explained term for some particular kind of land. Cowell