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Falcidian Portion

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary · Walter A. Shumaker and George Foster Longsdorf; ed. James C. Cahill · 1922

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

That portion of a testator's estate which, by the Falcidian law, was required to be left to the heir, amounting to at least one-fourth. Civ. Code La. art.

1608; 1 White, New Recop. 106.

FALDA (Spanish). The slope or skirt of a hill.

2 Wall. (U. S.) 673.

In Old English Law. A sheep fold; the liberty of faldage, or setting up in a field a movable pen for sheep.