Frozen Snake
Defined in 1 dictionary — Bouvier (1914)
Bouvier's Law Dictionary and Concise Encyclopedia
John Bouvier; revised by Francis Rawle · 1914
A term used to impute ingratitude and held libelous, the court taking judicial notice of its meaning without an innuendo. 12 Ad. & El. 624. FRUCTUARIUS (Lat.). One entitled to the use of profits, fruits, and yearly Increase of a thing. A lessee; a fermor. Bracton, 241; Vicat, Voc. Jur. Sometimes, as applied to a slave, he of whom any one has the usufruct Vicat, Voc. Jur. FRUCTUS (Lat). The right of using the increase of fruits: equivalent to usufruct. That which results or springs from a thing: as, rents, interest, freight from a ship, etc. All the natural retirn. Increase, or addition which is added by nature or by the skill of man, including all the organic products of things. Vicat, Voc. Jur.; 1 Mackeldey, Civil Law § 154. FRUCTUS CIVILES (Lat clvU fruits). All revenues and recompenses which, though not fruits properly speaking, are recognized as such by the law. 1 Eauffmann, Mackeld. § 154; Oalvinus, Lex. FRUCTUS INDUSTRIALES (Lat). Those products which are obtained by the labor and cultivation of the occupant: as, corn or peaches; 1 Kauffmann, Mackeld. § 154, n.; Burner v. Piercy, 40 Md. 212, 17 Am. Rep. 591; Townsend v. Hargraves, 118 Mass. 325. Emblements are such in the common law; 2 Steph. Com. 258; Vicat, Voc. Jur. perennials; such as trees, bushes, etc., which are fruotm naturalea. Sparrow v. Pond, 49 Minn. 412, 62 N. W. 36, 16 L. R. A. 103, 32 Am. St Rep. 671. FRUCTU8 LE6I8. The fruit of the law, i. e. execution. FRUCTUS NATU RALES (Lat). Those products which are produced by the powers of nature alone: as wool, metals, milk, the young of animals, and the fruit of trees and other perennial plants. 1 Kauffmann, Mackeld. § 154; Calvinus, Lex. See Faucrtrs IN- DtrSTEIA-LES. FRUCTUS PENDENTES (Lat). The fruits united with the thing which produces them. These form a part of the principal thing; 1 Kauffmann, Mackeld. § 154. Sometimes called fructua ^iantea, standing fruits.