Black's Law Dictionary

To disprove; to prove to be false or-erroneous; to avoid or defeat; spoken of verdicts, appeals, etc. To counterfeit or forge; to make something false; to give a false appcaiance t

A high offense against public justice, punishable in England by 24 & 25 Vint. c. 98, §§ 27, 28, and in the United States, generally, by statute.

In Scotch law. Faise making; forgery. "Falsing of evidentis1 Pitc. Crim. Tr. pt. 1, p. 85. Making or proving false. —Falsing of dooms. In Scotch law. The proving the injustice, fal

In Scotch law. The proving the injustice, falsity, or error of the doom or'sentence of a court. Tomlins; Jacob. The reversal of a sentence or judgment. Skene. An appeal. BelL

A forger; a counterfeiter. Hov. 424.

A writ which formerly lay against the sheriff who had execution of process for false returning of writs. Reg. Jud. 43b.

Lat. In the civil law. A false or forged thing; a fraudulent simulation; a fraudulent counterfeit or imitation, such as a forged signature or instrument. Also falsification, which

Lat. False; fraudnient; er-roncous. Deceitful; mistaken.

False in one thing, false in everything. Where a party is clearly shown to have embezzled one article of property, it is a ground of presumption that he may have embezzled others a

Lat. Fame; character; reputation; report of common opinion.

A killer of reputation; a slanderer.

3 Bulst. 226. Fame, faith, and eyesight do not suffer a cheat

2 Inst. 52. Report, which induces suspicion, ought to arise from good and grave men; not, indeed, from malevolent and malicious men, but from' cautious and credible persons; not on

In Roman law. A household; a family. On the composition of the Roman family, see Agnati; Cognati; and see Mackeld. Rom. Law, § 144.

Persons of the king's household. The ancient title of the "six clerks" of chancery in England. Crabb, Com. Law, 184; 2 Reeve, Eng. Law, 249, 251.

In Roman law. An intermediate person who purchased the aggregate, inheritanco when sold per œs et libram, in the process of making a will under the Twelve Tables. This purchaser wa

In Roman law. An action for the partition of the aggregate succession of a familia, where that devolved upon co-hœredes. It was also applicable to enforce a contribution towards th

A collective body of persons who live in one house and under one head or management. Jarboe v. Jarboe, 106 Mo. App.i459, 79 S. W. 1162; Dodge v. Boston & P. R. Corp, 154 Mass. 299,

A term denoting an agreement between a father and his children, or between the heirs of a deceased father, to dispose of property, or to partition it in a different manner than tha

A Bible containing a record of the births, marriages, and deaths of the members of a family.

An institution of the laws of Louisiana, being a council of the relatives (or, if there are no relatives, of the friends) of a minor, for the purpose of advising as to his affairs

This could belong only to a Roman citizen who was a "man in his own right," (homo sui juris.) Mackeld. Rom. Law, §§ 133, 144. In old English law. A household; the body of household

A term of practically the same signification as "family arrangement," q. v. supra. See Willey v. Hodge, 104 Wis. 81, 80 N. W. 75, 76 Am. St. Rep. 852.

A libelous writing. A term of the civil law denoting that species of injuria which corresponds nearly to libel or slander.

In the civll and old English law. Relating to or affecting character or reputation; defamatory; slanderous. —Famosns libellus. A libelous writing. A term of the civil law denoting

Fr. In French marine law. A large lantern, fixed upon the highest part of a vessel's stern.

Persons pretending to be inspired, and being a general name for Quakers, Anabaptists, and all other sectaries, and factious dissenters from the Church of England. (St 13 Car. II. c

In Spanish law. A measure of land varying in different provinces, but in the Spanish settlements in America consisting of 6,400 square varas or yards.

A Hindu term for a poor man, mendicant; a religious beggar.

In Scotch law. A traveler or merchant stranger. Skene.

In old English law. A bundle or pack; a fardel. Fleta, lib. 1, c. 22, § 10.

In old English law. The fourth part of a yard-land. Noy says an eighth only, because, according to him, two fardels make a nook, and four nooks a yard-land. Wharton.

The fourth part of an acre of land. Spelman.

A voyage or passage by water; also the money paid for a passage either by land or by water. Cowell. The price of passage, or the sum paid or to be paid for carrying a passenger. Ch

A mill; a toll of meal or flout. Jacob; Spelman.

Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot. It was often applied to the best chattel, as distingnished from heriot, the best beast. Cowell.

Whoremongers and adulterers.

n. A certain amount of provision reserved as the rent of a messuage. Spelman. Rent generally which is reserved on a lease; when it was to be paid in money, it was called, "blanche

1. The lessee of a farm. It is said that every lessee for Ilfe or years, although it be but of a small house and land, is called "farmer." This word implies no mystery, excopt it b

An unlawful game of cards, in which all the other players play against the banker or dealer, staking their money upon the order in which the cards will lie and be dealt from the pa

Lat. An ill-composed book centaining a collection of miscellaneous subjects not properly associated nor scientifically arranged. Wharton.

The fourth part of an English peimy. —Farthing of gold. An ancient English coin, containing in value the fourth part of a noble.

An ancient English coin, containing in value the fourth part of a noble.

The ancient appellation of Serjeants' Inn, Chancery lane.

Lat. Right; justice; the divine law. 3 Bl. Comm. 2; Calvin.

In old English law. A faggot of wood.

In Georgia, a "fast" bill of exceptions is one which may be taken in injunction suits and similar cases, at such time and in such manner as to bring the case up for review with gre

A day of fasting and penitence or of mortification by religious abstinence. See 1 Chit. Archb. Pr. (12th Ed.) 160, et seq.

Men in repute and substance; pledges, sureties, or bondsmen, who, according to the Saxon polity, were fast bound to answer for each other's peaceable behavior. Enc. Lond.

See Estate.

In Roman law. Lawful Dies fasti, lawful days; days on which justice could lawfuily be administered by the prætor. See Dies Fasti.

8 Inst. 14. He who flees judgment confesses his guilt.

The male parent He by whom a child is begotten. As used in law, this term may (according to the context and the nature of the instrument) include a putative as well as a legal fath

The father of one's wife or husband. —rFntative father. The alleged or reputed father of an illegitimate child. State v. Nestaval, 72 Minn. 415, 75 N. W. 725.

A nautical measure of sir -feet in length. Occasionally used as a superficial measure of land and in mining, and in that case it means a square fathom or thirty-six square feet Nah

A whore. Du Fresne.

In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy. Reg. Orig. 266.

Lat. Fate; a superhuman power ; an event or cause of loss, beyond human foresight or means of prevention.

One entirely destitute of reason; is qui omnino desipit. Ersk. Inst. 1, 7, 48.

An idiot or fool. Bract. foL 420b. Foolish; absurd; indiscreet; or ill considered. Fatuum judicium, a foolish judgment or verdict. Applied to the verdict of a jury which, though fa

In French law, and in Louisiana. A district or part of a town adjoining the principal city; a suburb. See City Council of Lafayette v. Holland, 18 La. 286.

(Jaws of the land.) Narrow headlands and promontories, inclosing a portion or arm of the sea within them. 1 Kent, Comm. 367, and note; Hale, De Jure Mar. 10; The Harriet, 1 Story,

In the civil law. Negligence; want of care. An improper act or omission, injurious to another, and transpiring through negligence, rashness or ignoranco. There are in law three deg

In old English law. A favorer or supporter of others; an abettor. Cowell; Jacob. A partisan. One who encouraged resistance to the execution of process. In Spanish law. Accomplice;

In old English law. False; counterfeit. Faux action, a false action. Litt. § 688. Faux money, counterfeit money. St. Westm. 1, c. 15. Faux pegs, false weights. Britt, c. 20. Faux s

Bias; partiality; lenity; prejudice. See Challenge.

Jenk. Cent 94. Things favorably considered in law are the treasury, dower, Ilfe, liberty.

The condition of the defendant must be favored, rather than that of the plaintiff. In other words, melior est conditio defendentis. Dig. 50, 17, 125; Broom, Max. 715.

Co. Litt. 289. Executions are preferred to all other processes whatever.

Jenk. Cent. 186. Favors are to be enlarged; things hatefni restrained.

Nautical or maritime interest. An extraordinary rate of interest agreed to be paid for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage; sometimes calied "usura mantma." Dig. 22, 2; Cod

In old English law. The portion brought by a wife to her husband, and which reverted to a widow, in case the heir of her deceased husband refused his consent to her second marriage

In international law. A treaty ; a league; a compact.

Faithful. Tenants by knight service swore to their lords to be feal and leal; i. e., faithful and loyal.

A right in Scotland, similar to the right of turbary in England, for fuel, etc.

In feudal law. Fidelity; allegiance to the feudal lord of the manor; the feudal obligation resting upon the tenant or vassal by which he was bound to be faithful and true to his lo

Apprehension of harm. Apprehension of harm or punishment, as exhibited by outward and visible marks of emotion. An evidence of guilt in certain cases. See Burrill, Circ. Ev. 476.

A doing; the doing of an act. See Malfeasance; Misfeasance; Non-xeasance. A making; the making of an indenture, release, or obligation. Litt. § 371; Dyer, (Fr. Ed.) 56b. The making

Doing or making, as, in the term "damage feasant," (doing damage or injury,) spoken of cattle straying upon another's land.

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

Certain established festivals or holidays in the ecclesiastical calendar. These days were anciently used as the dates of legal instruments, and in England the quarter-days, for pay

Among the ancient Romans, that order of priests who discharged the duties of ambassadors. Subsequently their duties appear to have related more particularly to the declaring war an

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 treatie

In constitutional law. A term commonly used to express a league or compact between two or more states. In American law. Belonging to the general government or union of the states.

The courts of the United States. See Courts of the Untted States.

The -system of government administered in a state formed by the union or confederation of several independent or quasi independent states; also the composite state so formed. In st

See Federal.

1. A freehold estate in lands, held of a superior lord, as a reward for services, and on condition of rendering some service in return for it. The true meaning of the word "fee" Is

A schedule of the fees to be charged by clerks of courts, sheriffs, or other officers, for each particular service in the line of their duties.

To lend additional support; to strengthen ex post facto. "The interest when it accrues feeds the estoppel." Christmas v. Oliver, 5 Mood. & R. 202.

Damages sustained by and awarded to an abutting owner of real property occasioned by the construction and operation of an elevated railroad in a city street, are so called, because

An estate where lands are given to a man and his wife, and the heirs of their bodies.

This is a species of tenure, where land is held of another in perpetuity at a yearly rent, without fealty, homage or other services than such as are specially comprised In the feof

A rent charge issuing out of an estate in fee; a perpetual rent reserved on a conveyance of land in fee simple.

In English law. A freehold estate of inheritance, absolute and unqualified. It stands at the head of estates as the highest in dignity and the most ample in extent; since every oth

An estate tail; an estate of inheritance given to a man and the heirs of his body or limited to certain classes of particular heirs. It corresponds to the feudum talliatum of the f

In old English law. A thief caught white escaping with the stolen goods in his possession. Spelman.

The name given to certain secret tribunals which flourished in Germany from the end of the twelfth century to the middle of the sixteenth, usurping many of the functions of the gov

Fictitious; pretended; supposititious; simulated. —Feigned accomplice. One who pretends to consult and act with others in the planning or commission of a crime, but only for the pu

One who pretends to consult and act with others in the planning or commission of a crime, but only for the purpose of discovering their plans and confederates and securing evidence