De Feodo

This phrase Is applied, In old statutes to officers who have their offices in fee. De feodo suo; of his fee; belonging to his fee. Fleta, lib. 2, c. 47, § 15. Forestarius de feodo; forester of fee. Cart, de Forest, c. 14. Maresoallus de feodo; marshal of fee. Stat. Westm. 2, c. 42. In dominco. In demesne, (q. v.) DE FIDE ET OFFICIO JUDICIS NON recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia sive sit error juris sive faoti. The bona fides and honesty of purpose of a judge cannot be questioned, but his decision may be impugned for error either of law or of fact. Bac. Max. reg. 17; 5 Johns. (N. Y.) 291; 9 Johns. (N. Y.) 396; 1 N. Y. 45; Broom, Leg. Max. (3d London Ed.) 82.

Lat. Of fee; in fee. See In feodo. In dominico suo ut de feodo. This phrase is applied in the statute of Westminster 2, to officers. Marescallus de feodo; marshal of fee. C. 42. Qui officium habeant de feodo; who have their offices in fee. Lord Coke observes that these words are not only meant of those who have a fee simple in their offices, but such as have any fixed estate, either in tail or for life. 2 Inst. 462, 463. According to some, it meant such officers as had fees due and belonging to them. Id. ibid. De fide et officio judicis non recipitur quaestio, sed de scientia, sive sit error juris, sive facti. Concerning the fidelity and official conduct of a judge no question is [will be] entertained; but [only] concerning his knowledge, whether the error [committed] be of law or of fact. Bacon's Max. 68, reg. 17. The law doth so much respect the certainty of judgments, and the credit and authority of judges, that it will not permit any error to be assigned which impeacheth them in their trust and office, and in wilful abuse of the same; but only in ignorance and mistaking either of the law or of the case and matter of fact. Id. ibid. Thus, it cannot be assigned for error that a judge did that which he ought not to do; as that he entered a verdict for the plaintiff, where the jury gave it for the defendant. F. N. B. 20, 21. Bacon's Max. ub. sup. Broom's Max. 40. DE FIDEI LAESIONE. Lat. Of breach of faith or fidelity. 4 Reeves' Hist. 99. See Pro laesione fidei.