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Fardel

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary · Alexander M. Burrill · 1850

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

[L. Lat. fardella, ferdella; from Sax. feortha, fourth, and del or dal, a part.] In old English law. The fourth, (or, according to some, the eighth) part of a yard-land.

Cowell. Blount.

Spelman makes it to be the fourth part, and considers all the words fardel, fardefidel, fardingdel, fardingel, farthindel and farundel, as signifying the fourth part of anything. Spelman, voc.

Fardella.