Firmaratlo

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In old English law. Firming, farming, or holding to firm, farm. The firmary's or farmer's right to the lands and tenements let to him ad firmam. Firmior et potentior est operatio legis quam dispositio Iiominis, I. The operation of the law is firmer and more powerful [or efficacious] than the disposition of man. First impression. First occurrence; first presentation to a court for determination. First purchaser: the first acquirer of an estate, whether by contract of sale, by gift, or otherwise.

In English ecclesiastical law. First fruits: the first year's whole profits of a benefice, anciently paid to the pope, and forming, together with tenths, a revenue, which at the reformation was annexed to the crown.