Facies
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. The face, outward appearance or color of a thing; the inspection or view of a thing. Prima fades; the first face or appearance. Prima facie; on the first view or color, (at first blush, as the modem phrase is.) Brojct. fol.
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See Color y Ex fade. In fade ecc Usia. FACIES? FACIA M. Lat. (Will you do ? I will do.) In the civil law. One of the forms in which verbal obligations or stipulations were made.
Inst 3. 16. 1.