Fcedus

See Federal; Confederation. FCEIfUS IfAUTICUM. L. Marine interest. Sometimes designates a loan of money to be employed in an adventure by sea, upon condition to be repaid witli extraordinary interest, in case the voyage is safely performed.* See Instjrance, Marine. FffiTIOIDE. See Homicide. F0LI0.2 1. A leaf. References to old law-books are by the folio, instead ot the page. See A, 1, par. 2. 2. A certain number of words, established by usage or law, as a unit of measurement for estimating the length of a document. Originated in some estimate of the number of words that a folio ought to contain. The number has varied, in different jurisdictions, from seventy-two, to ninety, and one hundred. By the act of February 26, 1853, § 3, a folio is one hundred words, counting each figure a word."