Category: F

In Roman law. The title of a book containing the forms of actions, published by Cneius Flavius, A. U. C. 449. Mackeld. Rom. Law, { 39. Calvln

A case of urgency rendering lawful an otherwise illegal act, as an assault to remove a man from impending danger

Lat Burning; raging; in actual perpetration

A national standard on which are certain emblems; an ensign; a banuer. It ls carried by soldiers, ships, etc., and com-monly displayed at forts and many other suitable places

whipped; scourged. An entry on old Scotch records. 1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 7

An act of parliament, passed in 1065, against non-conform-ists, whereby ministers of that body were prohibited from coming withln five miles of any corporate town, or place where they had preached or lectured. Brown

A place covered with standing water

In the clvll law. A pipe for conveying water. Dig. 8, 2, 18

In Scotch law. The flscus or fisc. The revenue of the crown. Generally used of the personal estate of a rebel which has been forfeited to the crown. Bell

In mining law. A vein or lode of mineralized matter filling a pre-existing fissure or crack In the earth’s crust extending across the strata and gen

A dam or wear in a river for taking fish. Cowell

An animal which inhabits the wa-ter, breathes by means of gills, swims by the aid of fins, and is oviparous

A place prepared for catch-ing fish with nets or hooks. This is com-monly applied to the place of drawing a seine or net Hart v. Hill, 1 whart. (Pa.) 131, 132

Belonglng to the fisc, or pub-llc treasury. Relating to accounts or the management of revenue

In old English law. Liberty to scour and repair a mill-dam, aud carry away the soil, etc. Blount

Inltial; leading; chief; preceding all others of the same kind or class in sequence, (numerical or chronological;) en-tltled to priority or preference above others. Redman v. Railroad Co., 33 N. J. Eq. 165; Thompson v. Grand Gulf R. & B. Co., 3 How. (Miss.) 247, 34 Am. Dec. 81; Hapgood v. Brown, 102 Mass. 452

An Anglicized form of the Latin “flseus,” (whlch see

In oid Eugllsh law. Au as* surance of some privilege, by deed or char-ter

L. Lat. A fermor. A lessee of a term. Firmarii comprehend all such as hold by lease for life or lives or for year, by deed or without deed. 2 Iust. 144, 145; 1 washb. Real Prop. 107

The doe season. Also a supplylng with food. Cowell

The right of a tenant to hls lands and tenements. Cowell

A Turkish word denoting a decree or grant of privileges, or passport to a traveler

The efTect of combustion. The juridical meaning of the word does not differ from the vernacular. 1 Pars. Mar. Law, 231, et seq

A Scotch measure of capacity, containing two gallons aud a pint. Spelman

Sax. A preparation to go lnto the army. Leg. Hen. I

Sax. In old English law. Exemption from military service. Spelman

In old English law. A fine for refusing military servlce, (mnlcta Aetrec-tantis militiam.) Spelman

Sax. In old Engllsh law. A summoning forth to a military expedition, (indictio ad profectionem militarem.) Spel-mau

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An endlng; death, as the end of llfe. Blount; Cowell

In old Engllsh lnw. To flne, or pay a flne. Cowell. To end or fluish a matter

Lat. An end; a fine; a boundary or terminus; a limit Also in L. Lat., a fine (q. v

To make or pay a flne. Bract. 106

An obsolete writ to inhibit officers of courts to take fines for fair pleading

An absolute necessity or inevitable constraint. Plowd. 94; 6 Coke, 11; Cowell

Ad abolished writ for dis-annulling a fine levied of lands in ancient demesne to the prejudice of the lord. Reg. orig. 15

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A decision npon a question of fact reached as the result of a judicial ex-amlnation or Investigation by a court, jury, referee, coroner, etc. williams v. Giblin, 86 wis. 648, 57 N. W. 1111; Rhodes v. United 8tates Bank, 66 Fed. 514,13 C. 0. A. 612, 34 L. R. A. 742

The public wealth of a state or government, considered either statically

A person employed in the economical management and application of public money; one skilled in the manage-ment of financial affairs

Lat In old practice. A file; i. e., a thread or wire on which papers were strung, that being the ancient method >f filing

In old records. A godson. Spelman

Lat A son; a child

To make full; to complete; to sat-isfy or fulfill; to possess and perform the duties of

In old English law. A ferny or bracky ground: a place where fern grows. Co. Litt. 4b; Shep. Touch. 95

Brit. A name given to villeins ln the laws of Hoel Ddn. Barring, obs. St 302

To fix a bastard child on some one, as Its father. To declare whose child it is. 2 W. Bl. 1017

An officer of the superior courts at westminster, whose duty it was to file the writs on Which he made process. There were fourteen filacers, and lt was their duty to make out all orlglual process. Cow-ell; Blount. The office was abolished in 1837

In old Engllsh practice. To file. Townsh. Pl. 67

An encounter, with blows or other personal violence, between two persons. See State v. Gladden, 73 N. C. 155; Carpen-ter v. People, 31 Colo. 284, 72 Pac. 1072; Coles v. New York Casualty Co., 87 App. Dlv. 41, 83 N.. Y. Supp. 1063