Ficium
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia · John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
Land given to the lessee and to two or three successive heirs of his; synonymous With loan land. This species of tenure seems to have been replaced by that of holding by book or bocland.
See Maitl. £)oomsday Book and Beyond 318.
See Folcland. iyCSA MAJESTAS (Lat.). Lsese-majesty, or injured majesty; high treason. It is a phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any offence against the king’s person or dignity, defined by 25 Edw. III. c.
6.
See Glanv. lib.
5, c. 2; 4 Bla. Com. 76; Br. 118; Cbimen Majestatis, LyESIO ENORMIS.
The injury sustained by a party to an owner’s contract who Is overreached by the other to the extent of more than one-half the value of the thing sold. A rescript of Diocletian permitted a rescission of the sale by a vendor unless the purchaser agreed to the additional amount required to make up the value of the thing sold.
Sohm, Inst. Rom. L. § 69.
It was sometimes called Iwsio ultra dinvidium.
Colq. O. L. § 2094.
L^SIONE FIDEI, SUITS PRO. Proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offences against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity was checked by the Constitutions of Clarendon, A. D. 1164; 3 Bla. Com. 62.