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Sax. In old English law. A plain between woods. Co. Lltt. 5b

Hearth money. A tax laid upon each fire-place or hearth. An imposition of a shilling for every hearth, levied by Edward III. in the dukedom of Aquitaine. Spelman; 1 Bl. Comm. 324

In old English law. The affording harbor and entertainment ? to any one

A piece or par-cel of land lying by Itself. Co. Litt. 5b

In old records. A place overgrown with shrubs and; bushes. Spel-man; Blonnt

In the civil law. Grain. That which grows ln an ear. Dig. 50, 16, 77

Sax. The first payment made to the kindred of a slain person in rec-ompense for his murder. Blount

A breaking; plowing. Cowell

In the civil law. Anything produced from vines, underwood, chalk-pits, stone-quarries. Dig. 50, 16, 77

The produce of a tree or plant which contains the seed or is used for food

or FREOMORTEL

FRONTAGER. ln Eng-lish law a frontager Is a person owning or occupying land which abuts on a highway, river, sea-shore, or the like. The term ls generally used with reference to the liability of frontagers on streets to contribute to-wnrds the expense of paving, draining, or other works on the highway carried out by a […]

Sax. Peace, security, or protec-tion. This word occurs in many compound terms used in Anglo-Saxon law

Persons of free descent, or freemen born; the middle class of persons among the Saxons. Spelman

Fresh uncultivated ground. Mon. Angl. t. 2, p. 56. Fresh; not salt. Reg. orig. 97. Recent or new. See Fbesu, and sub-titles thereunder

Impotence. Johnson

See Amicus Curls

In old English law. An outlaw; so called because he was deuled all help of friends. Bract lib. 3, tr. 2, c. 12

In English law. Associations supported by subscrip-tion, for the relief and maintenance of the members, or their wives, children, relatives, and nominees, in sickness, infancy, advanced age, widowhood, etc. The statutes regulat-ing these societies were consolidated and amended by St. 38 & 39 Vlct. c. 60. wharton

Frankpledge. CowelL Security for the peace. Spelman

ln old English law. A kind of frank-pledge, by w’hich the lords or principal men were made responsible for their dependents or servants. Bract, fol. 124b

An order of religious persons, of whom there were four principal branches, viz.: (1) Minors, Grey Friars, or Francis-cans; (2) Augnstines; (3) Dominicans, or Black Friars; (4) white Friars, or Carmel-ltes, from whom the rest descend, wharton

In the CivU law. A temporary separation between husband and wife, caused by a quarrel or estrangement, but not amounting to a divorce, because not accompanied with an Intention to dissolve the marriage

In old English law. The freight of a ship; freight money. Cowell

Lat A strait

Fr. In Freuch marine law. To freight a ship; to let It. fcmerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, | 3

Fr. In French marine law. Freighter. The owner of a ship, who lets it to the merchant Emerig. Tr. des Ass. c. 11, 13

Fr. In French marine law. Freight, ord. Mar. liv. 3, tit. 3

Immediate; recent; following without any material lnterval

In old records. Fresh water, or rain and land flood

A free-surety, or freepledge. Spelman. See Frank-Pledge

Fr. A brother. Frere egne, elder brother. Frere puisne, younger broth-er. Brltt c. 75

Sax. An outlaw. So called because on his outlawry he was denied all help of friends after certain days. Cow-ell ; Blount

ln old English law. A mulct or flne exacted from him who harbor-ed au outlawed friend. Cowell; Tomlins

In old English law. A madman, or person in a frenzy. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 36

Freight Is properly the price or compensation paid for the transportation of goods by a carrier, at sea, from port to port. But the term is also used to denote the hire paid for the carriage of goods on laud from place to place, (usually by a railroad company, not au express company,) or

The state of being free; liberty; self-determination; absence of restraint; the opposite of slavery

An estate in land or other real property, of uncertain duration; that is, either of inheritance or which may possibly last for tbe life of the tenant at the least, (as distinguished from a leasehold;) and held by a free tenure, (as distinguished from copy-hold or villelnage.) Nevitt v. woodburn, 175 111. 376, 51 N. […]

In Roman law. one who was set free from a state of bondage; an emancipated slave. The word Is used in the same sense In the United States, respecting negroes who were formerly slaves. Falrfield v. Lawson, 50 Conn. 513, 47 Am. Rep. 669; Davenport v. Caldwell, 10 S. C. 333

Sanctuaries; seats of peace

A fine paid for obtaining par-don when the peace had been broken. Spelman; Blount. A sum paid the magistrate for protection against the right of revenge

In old English law. Freight. Quoad frcctum nurium sua rum, as to the freight of hls vessels. Blount

In old English law. A liberty to hold courts and take up the fines for beating aud woundiug. To be free from flues. CowelL

In old Engllsh law. A wood of ashes; a place where ashes grow. Co. Lltt. 4b; Shep. Touch. 95

See Affbay

L. Pr. A franchlse

Lat Fraud. More commonly called, ln the clvll law, “dolus:’ and “dolus malus,” (q. v.) A distinction, however, was sometlme8 made between “fraus” and “dolus;” the former being held to be of the most extensive lmport Calvin

Based on fraud; proceeding from or characterized hy fraud; tainted by fraud; done, made, or effected with a purpose or design to carry out a fraud

See Frank.

In old English law. Certain friars who wore white and black garments, walsingham, 124