Fama
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850
A New Law Dictionary and Glossary
Lat. Fame; character or reputation. See Famosus. Fame; report. Fama patria; fame of the country; report or common opinion, upon which a man might anciently be indicted.
Bract. foL 143.
It must have arisen, however, apud bonat et graves^ (among the good and grave; that is, persons of good character and influence.) Id,