Fresh

Immediate; recent; following without any material interval.

— Fresh disseisin. By the ancient common law, where a man had been disseised, he was allowed to right himself by force, by ejecting the disseisor from the premises, without resort to law, provided this was done forthwith, while the disseisin was fresh, {flagrante disseisina.) Bract, fol. 162b. No particular time was limited for doing this, but Bracton suggested it should be fifteen days. Id. fol. 163. See Britt, cc. 32, 43, 44, 65.

— Fresh fine. In old English law. A fine that had been levied within a year past. St. Westm. 2, c. 45; Cowell.

— Fresh force. Force done within forty days. Fitzh. Nat. Brev. 7; Old Nat. Brev. 4. The heir or reversioner in a case of disseisin by fresh force was allowed a remedy in chancery by bill before the mayor. Cowell.

— Fresh pursuit. A pursuit instituted immediately, and with intent to reclaim or recapture, after an animal escaped, a thief flying with stolen goods, etc. People v. Pool, 27 Cal. 578; White v. State, 70 Miss. 253, 11 South. 632,

— Fresh suit. In old English law. Immediate and unremitting pursuit of an escaping thief. "Such a present and earnest following of a robber as never ceases from the time of the robbery until apprehension. # The party pursuing then had back again his goods, which otherwise were forfeited to the crown." Staundef. P. C. lib. 3, cc. 10, 12; 1 Bl. Comm. 297.

In old English applied in the old a disseisin which of the disseisor. year past. Fresh mitted in any city called an assise or immediate or speedy offender, immediately, the prosecution of tion of the offender.

See Suit, 1.

[L. Lat. friecus; L. Fr. fresche; Lat. recens.] In old English law. Recent, or new. See Fresh disseisin. Fresh force. Without profit; a term applied in the old books to land. Celug que la terre tient issint charge, la lessest giser fresh, issint que home ne putt trover distress, dtc. He who holds the land so charged lets it lie^^^A, so that the party cannot find a distress. Stai. Oloucest. c. 3. Land was said to lie fresh, not only when there was no cattle, or thing distrainable upon the land, of the value of the rent, or other profit behind, but also, though there was a sufficient distress to be taken, yet if the land were so enclosed about as that the lord could not come to take and carry away the distress to the pound, it was said to lie fresh, that is, without profit to the lord.. 2 Inst. 296.