Deadhead

A term applied to persons other than the officers or employes of a railroad company who are permitted by the railroad to travel without payment of fare.

Phil. Law (61 N. C.) 22.

DEADLY FEUD (Lat. faida mortalis, or mortifera). A profession of irreconcilable hatred against an enemy, until revenge were obtained even by his death. This was allowed by the ancient Saxon laws, where a man had been killed, and no pecuniary satisfaction had been made to his kindred. Spelman, voc. "Faida." The term was also applied to the predatory warfare carried on in the northern borders of England.

St. 43 Eliz. c. 13; 4 Bl. Comm. 244.

See "Faida."

See Faida.