Fegangi
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
An escaping thief caught with stolen goods in his possession. Spel. Gloss. FEHMGERiCHTE. An irregular tribunal which existed and flourished in Westphalia during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. From the close of the fourteenth century its Importance rapidly diminished; and it was finally suppressed by Jerome Bonaparte in 1811. See Bork, Qeachichte der Westphalichen Vehmgerichte; Paul Wigand, Das Fehmgericht Westphaleus.