Fcedus
A Dictionary of Law · William C. Anderson · 1889
A Dictionary of Law
See Federal; Confederation. FCEIfUS IfAUTICUM.
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Marine interest
Sometimes designates a loan of money to be employed in an adventure by sea, upon condition to be repaid witli extraordinary interest, in case the voyage is safely performed.* See Instjrance, Marine.
FffiTIOIDE.
See Homicide.
See Homicide.
F0LI0.2 1.
A leaf
References to old law-books are by the folio, instead ot the page.
See A, 1, par. 2. 2.
A certain number of words, established by usage or law, as a unit of measurement for estimating the length of a document. Originated in some estimate of the number of words that a folio ought to contain. The number has varied, in different jurisdictions, from seventy-two, to ninety, and one hundred. By the act of February 26, 1853, § 3, a folio is one hundred words, counting each figure a word."