Category: F

In old English law. A weekday ; a holiday; a day on which process could not be served; a fair; a ferry. Cowell; Du Cange; Spelman

A fardel-land; ten acres; or perhaps a yard-land. Cowell

Sax. A summons to serve-in the army. An acquittance from going into-the army. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 47, ( 23

A term denoting, appar-ently, a freeman of the lowest class, being named after the cotseti

A certain portion of the prod-uce of the land dne by the grantee to the lord according to the terms of the charter. Spel. Feuds, c. 7

The person making a feoff-ment, or enfeoffing another in fee. 2 BL Comm. 310; Litt. H 1, 57

In forest law. The fawning season of deer

The gift of any corpo-real hereditament to another, (2 Bl. Comm. 310), operating by transmutation of possession, and requiring, as essential to its com-pletlon, that the selsen be passed, (watk. Conv. 183), whlch might he accomplished elther by investiture or by livery of seisin

In old English law. A feoffer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment Bract fols. 12b, 81

In old Engllsh law. A feoffee; one to whom a fee ls given, or a feoffment made. Bract fols. 17b, 44b

A feoffment. 2 BL Comm. 310

In old English law. Fee-farm, (q. v

The lessee of a fee-farm

See Feudal Srs-TEM

Fidelity or fealty. Cow-ell. See Fealty

The

The same as feud or fief

Belonging to a fpe or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than feudal

In Saxon law. A tax or imposition, exacted for the repelling of en-emies

In forest law. The fawn-lng of deer; the fawning season. Spelman

Usury; the gain of in-terest; the practice of increasing money by lending

The killing of a woman. Wharton

Malignant; maliciouB; done with lntent to commit a crime; having the grade or quality of a felony. People v. Moore, 37 Hun (N. Y.) 93; Aikman v. Com., 18 S. W. 938, 13 Ky. Law Rep. 894; State v. Bush, 47 Kan. 201, 27 Pac. 834, 13 L. R. A. 607; Com. v. Barlow, 4 […]

with a felonious In-tent; with the Intention of committing a crime. An indispensable word ln modern indictments for felony, ns fclonicc was in the Latin forms. 4 Bl. Coinm. 307; State v. Jesse. 19 N. C. 300; State v. Smith, 31 wash. 245, 71 Pac. 767; State v. Halpin, 16 S. D. 170, 91 N. […]

In English law. Thjs term meant originally the state of having forfeited lands and goods to the crown upon convic-tion for certain offenses, and then, by transi-tion, any offense upon conviction for which such forfeiture followed, ln addition to any other punishment prescribed hy law; as dis

Felony. The act or offense by which a vassal forfeited hls fee. Spel-man; Calvln. Per feloniam, with a criminal Intention. Co. Lltt. 391

Feloniously. Anciently an indispensable word ln indictments for felony, and classed by Lord Coke among those voces artts (words of art) which cannot be ex-pressed by any periphrasis or circumlocution. 4 Coke, 39; Co. Lltt 391a; 4 Bl. Comm. 307

A felon of himself; a suicide or murderer of himself, one who deliberately and intentionally puts an end to

one who has committed felony; one convicted of felony

A co-helr; partner of the same Inheritance

See Sodomy

A-companion; one with whom we consort; one joined with another in some legal status or relation; a member of a col-lege or corporate body

L. Fr. Faithful. See Feal

In Saxon law. one bound for another by oath; a sworn brother. A friend bound in the decennary for the good behavior of another, one who took the place of the deceased. Thus, if a person was murdered, the recompense due from the murderer went to the fclagus of tlie slain, iu default of parents […]

A field; in composition, wild. Blount

The name given to certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the twelfth cen-tury to the middle of the sixteenth, usurping many of the functions of the governments which were too weak to maintain law and order, and inspiring dread in all who came within their jurisdictlon. Enc. Brit. Such a […]

Fictitious; pretended; sup-posititlous; simulated

An estate tail; an estate of inheritance given to a man and the heirs of his body, or limited to certain classes of pnr-tlcular heirs. It corresponds to the feud uni talliatum- Qf the feudal law, aud the Idea is believed to have been borrowed from the Ro-mau law, where, by way of fidei commissa, […]

In old English law. A thlef caught while escaping with the stolen goods ln his possession. Spelman

In English law. A

The nearest approach to a system of International law known to the ancient world. It was a branch of Roman Jurisprudence, concerned with embassies, declarations of war, and treaties of peace. It received this name from the feciales, (q. v.,) who were charged with its administration

Among the ancient Romans, that order of priests who discharged tiie duties of ambassadors. Subsequently their du-tles appear to have related more particular-ly to the declaring war and peace. Calvin

In constitutional law. A

Certain established festivals or holidays In the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently uded as the dates of legal Instruments, and ln England the quar-ter-days, for paying rent, are four feast-days. The terms of the courts, in England, before 1875, were fixed to begin on certain days determined with reference to the occurrence of four […]

Doer; maker. Feasors del estaiute, makers of the statute. Dyer, 3b. Also used in the compound term, “tort-feasor,” one who commits or is guilty of a tort

A doing; the doing of an act See Malfeasance; Misfeasance; Non-feasance

A right ln Scot-land, slmllar to the rlght of turbary in Eng-land, for fuel, etc

Apprehension of harm

In old English law. False; counterfeit. Faux action, a false actlon. Lltt. | 688. Faux money, counterfeit money. SL westm. 1, c. 15. Faux pegs, false weights. Britt c. 20. Faux serement, a false oath. 8t. westm. 1, c. 38

Bias; partiality; lenity; prejudice. See Challenge