Ficium

Land given to the lessee and to two or three successive heirs of his; synonymous With loan land. This species of tenure seems to have been replaced by that of holding by book or bocland. See Maitl. £)oomsday Book and Beyond 318. See Folcland. iyCSA MAJESTAS (Lat.). Lsese-majesty, or injured majesty; high treason. It is a phrase taken from the civil law, and anciently meant any offence against the king’s person or dignity, defined by 25 Edw. III. c. 6. See Glanv. lib. 5, c. 2; 4 Bla. Com. 76; Br. 118; Cbimen Majestatis, LyESIO ENORMIS. The injury sustained by a party to an owner’s contract who Is overreached by the other to the extent of more than one-half the value of the thing sold. A rescript of Diocletian permitted a rescission of the sale by a vendor unless the purchaser agreed to the additional amount required to make up the value of the thing sold. Sohm, Inst. Rom. L. § 69. It was sometimes called Iwsio ultra dinvidium. Colq. O. L. § 2094. L^SIONE FIDEI, SUITS PRO. Proceedings in the ecclesiastical courts for spiritual offences against conscience, for non-payment of debts, or breaches of civil contracts. This attempt to turn the ecclesiastical courts into courts of equity was checked by the Constitutions of Clarendon, A. D. 1164; 3 Bla. Com. 62.

Ex mero motu. Out of pure free-w Ul. See Motion, 1. Ex mora. From delay, or default. Ex necessitate. From necessity; necessarily. Ex necessitate legis. From urgency of the law. Ex necessitate rei. From urgency of the thing or case. Ex nudo pacto. Out of an engagement without a consideration. See Pactum. Ex ofB.cio. By virtue of office. See Of-