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Ferdfare

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

The Cyclopedic Law Dictionary

A summons to serve in the army. FERIA (Lat.) In old English law. A week day;' a holiday; a day on which process may not be served; a fair; a ferry.

Du Cange; Spelman; Cowell; 4 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 17. name in the r Carly Roman empire.

In the later Roman empire the single days occurring at intervals of a week apart, commencing with the seventh day of the ecclesiastical year, were so called. Du Cange.