Category: F

Lat To be made; to be done. See In Fieri

(That you cause.to be made.) ln practice. A writ of execution commanding the sheriff to levy and make the amount of a Judgment from the goods and chattels of the judgment debtor

Ancient Gothic courts of an inferior jurisdiction, so called

An ancient custom in Eng-land, by which officers of the forest and bailiffs of hundreds had the right to compel the hundred to furnish them with ale. Tom-lins

In Spanish lnw. A sequestrator; a persou in whose hands a thlng ln dispute is judicially deposited; a receiver. Las Par-* tidas, pt. 3, tit. 9, 1. 1

A fee, feod, or feud

In old English law.* The holder of a fief or fee; a feeholder on l reeholder

In Roman law. The elder brother of an emancipated pupil-lus, whose father had died leaving him still under fourteen years of age

Lat To betray faith or fealty. A term used ln feudal and old English law of a feudatory or feudal tenant who does not keeP that fealty which he bas sworn to the lord. Leg. Hen. I. c. 53

See Insvb-ANCE

Lat Fealty, (q. v

See Fide-Jussor

In the civil law. A species of trust; being a gift of property

An assumptlon or supposition of law that something which is or may be false is true, or that a state of facts exists

Founded on a fiction; having the character of a flctlon; false, feigned, or pretended

In Roman law. A fiction; an assumption or supposition of the law

The value of grain ln the different counties of Scotland, fixed year

Sp. ln Spanish law, trust, con-fldence, and correlatively a legal duty or ob-ligatiou arising therefrom. The term is suffl-clentiy broad lu meanlng to include both a general obligation and a restricted liability under a single Instrument Martinez v. Run-kle. 57 N. J. Law, 111, 30 Atl. 593. But in a special sense, it designates a […]

L. Lat. A feud, fief, or fee. A right of using nnd enjoying forever the lands of another, whieh tlie lord grants on condition that the tenant shall render fealty, mllitary duty, and other services. Spelman

An abbreviation for fieri facias, (which see

A writer on feuds, as Cuja-cius, Spelman, etc

In Spanish law. Feud or fee. white, New Recop. b. 2, tit. 2, c. 2

The feudal system; the aggregate of feudal principles and usages

To reduce to a feudal ten-ure; to conform to feudalism, webster

Feuds or fees

In feudal law. An estate in land held of a superior on condition of ren-derlng him services. 2 Bl. Comm* 105

Fr. In old French and Canadian law. Hearth and home. A term importing actual settlement upon laud by a tenant

Lat A

A feast or festival. Festum stultorum, the feast of fools

Earnest given to servants when hired or retained. The same as arles-penny. Cowell

Iron. In old English law. A,horse-shoe. Ferrara, shoeing of horses

A liberty to have a boat upon a river for the transportation of men, horses, and carriages with thelr contents, for a ren-sonable toll. The term ls also used to desig-nate the (place where such liberty ls exer-cised. See New York v. Starin, 8 N. Y. St. Rep. 655; Broaduax v. Baker, 94 N. C. […]

In old English law. Grand holidays, on which choirs wore caps. Jacob

The toll or fare paid for the transportation of persons and property across a ferry

In old pleading. An iron mlne. Townsh. Pl. 273

In old English law. A waste ground, or place where fern grows. Cowell

In the eivll law. To be borne; that is on or about the per> This was dis-tinguished from portari, (to . , carried,) which signified to be carried on an animal. Dig. 50, 16, 235

In old English law. The wlnter season for kllling deer

In old records. A place ln monasteries, where they recelved the poor, (Aospieio cxcipiebant,) and gave them pro-visions, (ferm, firma.) Spelman. Hence the modern infirmary, used in the sense of a hospital

Beverages produced by, or whlch have undergone, a process of alcohollc fermentation, to which they owe their intoxicating properties, including beer, wine, hard cider, and the like, but uot spirituous or distilled, liquors. State v. Lemp, IQ Mo. 391; State v. Biddle, 54 N. H. 383; People v. Foster, 64 Mich. 715, 31 N. W. […]

A lessee; a farmer. one who holds a term, whether of lauds or an lucorporeal right, such as customs or revenue

In French law. one who farms any public revenue

or FEARM. A house or land, or both, let by lease. Cowell

A farm; a rent; a lease; a house or land, or both, taken by indenture or lease. Plowd. 195; Vicat, See Fabm

In old records. The fourth part of a penny; also the quarter of a ward in a borongh

A fourth part of a yard-land

A furlong. Co. Litt 5b

Holiday*; also weekdays, as distinguished from Sunday. Cowell

In old European law. A wound; a stroke. Spelman

In Saxon law. An acquittance of manslaughter committed ln tbe army; also a fine imposed on persons for net going forth on a military expedition. Cow-ell