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Fatuus

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

A New Law Dictionary and Glossary

Lat. An idiot or fool. Bract, fol.

420 b. Fatuus et idiotcu Beg, Orig, 266.

Foolish; absurd, indiscreet or ill considered. Fatuum judicium; a foolish judgment or verdict. Bract, fol.

289.

Applied to the verdict of a jury, which, though false, was not criminally so, or did not amount to perjury. Id, ibid, FAUCES TERRiE. Lat. Narrow headlands and promontories, enclosing a portion or arm of the sea within them, [as ma^or^e,/attce*.] 1 Kent* s Com, 3^1, taid note. ffa Uy Ih Jure Mar Uy 10.

Story, J., 1 Story's B. 251, 269.