A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. I. In old English law. The making or coining of money.

1. 1. In old English law. To forge; to coin; to make lawfully. Fabricavit et contrafecit: (he) forged and counterfeited.

To forge; to devise falsely; to create by artifice, with a view to deceive; as to fabricate evidence, or facts the materials of evidence.

A fact existing only in statement, without any foundation in truth; the semblance or appearance of a fact, created by design and presented as a reality; a fact tQ which a false app

Production of false and deceptive appearances; the employment of physical objects for the purpose of making false impressions and with a view to such impressions being reported in

In English law. Lands given towards the maintenance, rebuilding or repairing of cathedral and other churches.

1. In old English law. To do, to make, to act; to cause a thing to be done. v. Facio; Facit. Facere defaltam: to make default Facere duellum: to make the duel; to engage in the com

I. I You cause, — an emphatic word in various writs.

I I Doing, making or paying, — one of the apt words of reserving a rent, used in ancient deeds. Faciendo inde talla servitia: doing therefor such services.

In Scots law. Easily persuaded; easily imposed upon.

In Scots law. Pliancy of disposition,

I. In the civil law. I do that you may give, — a form of words used to express that kind of contract by which a man agrees to do a thing for a price or thing to be given him by ano

I. In old English law. He does or acts; it makes, or contributes to establish, v. Qui facit, etc.

A thing done; a circumstance, event or occurrence. Further, in the law of evidence, a physical object or appearance; a reality, as distinguished from supposition or opinion.

I. In old English law. Deeds; facts. Facta armorum: deeds or feats of arms, that is, jousts or tournaments. Facta et casus: facts and cases.

I. I. In fact; by an act; by the act or fact

A commercial agent who buys and sells goods for others on commission; in some of the states, a person in whose hands the effects of another ai-e attached for debt, otherwise called

In American law. A process like garnishment, otherwise called trustee process, by which the effects of a debtor are attached in the hands of a third person, v. l Yustee process.

In Scots laic. A power or commission given ta a factor; a power of attorney.

I. A fact; a thing done; an act or deed; the execution of a will., Factum infettum Heri uequit: a thing done cannot be undone. Factum nou dicitur quod non perseverat: that is not s

court of. In England, a court of the archbishop which grants various licenses, creates rights to pews, monuments, etc.

Power or ability. In English ecclesiastical law. A privilege granted to a man to do that which, by law, he could not do. In Scots law. A power founded on consent, as distinguished

fasting-men. In Saxon law. Pledges, sureties or bondsmen, which by custom were fast bound to answer for one another's pe?,ceable behavior.

I In old English law. A doing, — applied to services done by a tenant. In the civil law. Faetio testamenti: the right, power or capacity of making a will,^ called /aciio ac Mva; th

The failure to produce a record, after pleading it

In England, a larger sort of a market for the greater convenience of domestic trade, held at certain times of the year, either by grant from the crown, or by prescription which sup

Just; equitable; equal; proper. Fair abridgment: a real condensation of copyright matter. Fair knowledge or skill: a reasonpleader. Fair sale: a sale made fairly as it affects the

faiere, fere, fer, fr. To make or do. Faire gree: to make satisfaction. Faire la foi: to make faith; to do fealty. Faire sa ley: to make his law. Faisant, feasant: doing.

fet, I. fr. A deed; an act or fact; an obligation for the payment of money. Fait endeut: a deed indented. Fait polle: a deed poll

In Scots law. A solemn pledge; an oath.

faitnres, I fr. Evil-doers; idle persons; vagabonds or vagrants.

I. In old English law. To mow; to cut Falcare prata: to mow or cut grass in meadows laid in for hay. Falcatio: a mowing. Falcatnra: a day's mowing.

I. In old English law. Grass fresh mown and laid in swathes,

I. In old English law. A mower; a servile tenant who performed the labor of mowing. Falcatores: mowers.

I, Falcidian law. In the civil law. A law enacted on motion of Publius Falcidius, tribune of the people, A. XJ. C. 714, by which a testator was forbidden to give more in legacies t

I. I. In old English law. A sheepfold; a place in which animals were shut up; the liberty of faldage.

Faldsoca, sax. In old English law. The privilege of setting up and moving about a sheep-fold for the purpose of manuring the ground.

I. I. In old English law. To fold. Faldari: to be folded.

sax. A fee or rent paid by a tenant to his lord, for leave to fold his sheep on his own ground.

L I. In old English law. A fold course; the course of a fold; a sheep walk, or feed for sheep.

In Scots law. To lose, as to fall from a right, to lose or forfeit it

I I. In old English law. A

I. In the civil law. Beating without pain!

Untrue, or illegal, or erroneous, of error or untruth in the doing of action. False fact: the appearance existing only in statement, without imprisonment: an unlawful restraint pri

In Scots law. A fraudulent truth, to the prejudice of another.

In equity practice, the of an account to be wholly false, or

To prove false; to avoid or verdict or judgment. To show, in a charge has been inserted which false, or in part erroneous. To forge to give a false appearance to a thing.

In Scots law. False making; false. Falsing of dooms: proving the doom or sentence of a court; the ment

I. I. In old English law. false or spurious money. Falsonarii:

I. I. In old against the sheriff who had execution of writs.

I. In the civil law. A fraudulent pression of truth.

I. In old English law. False; in uno, falsns in omnibus: false in

Z. In the civil and old English tation. Fama of the counterfeiter. with an implication of knowledge, the act. False action: v. Faint or semblance of a fact; a fact any foundation i

I. In old English law. A family or household, including servants, and all who were under the authority of one master; a portion of land sufl Bcient to maintain one family, — someti

1. 1. In old English law. Persons of the king's household, the title of the " six clerks " in chancery.

I. In the civil law. An action brought by coheirs for the partition of their inheritance. '

A body of persons living together in one house and under one management or head; in the more general sense, including parents, children and servants; in a stricter sense, including

I. In civil and old English law. Relating to, or affecting character or reputation; defamatory; slanderous; of bad character or repute. Famosus libellns: a publication affecting ch

I. I. In old English law. The fawning season, or fence month in forests.

fauxer, faucher, I. fr. To falsify; to

fausyn, I. fr. Forgery or counterfeiting.

I, In old English law. A favorer or abettor.

In Scots laiv. A merchant stranger.

In old English law. The fourth, or, according to some, the eighth part of a yard-laud.

fardingdel, fardingel, fardindel, farthindel, farundel. In old English law. The fourth part of an acre.

A circuit of ground, committed to the charge of a parson or vicar, or other minister having cure of souls therein; an ecclesiastical division of a town or district, subject to the

sax. In Saxon law. A stopping or obstruction of ways.

2. 2. In old English law. Judgment of the peers; trial by jury.

farlen. In English law. Money paid by tenants in lieu of a heriot

In American law. A tract of land devoted in part, at least, to cultivation, whatever its extent, or the tenure by which it is held; a messuage with land, wood, etc., belonging to o

farmor, fermor. In English law. One lands for a term, on payment of a rent; a than land.

To let for a farm, that is, for a term, — in leases, introduced at an early period in let for a term, at a certain rent, — usually applied revenues.

I. Eight, justice; the divine law.

fastermannes. In Saxon law. bondsmen.

I. In the Roman law. Lawful.

I In old English law. A staflf, used in making livery of seisin; a baton, club or cudgel. Fiiste et scnto defenders: to defend with baton and buckler, that is, in the duellum, or c

facinus qui judicium fagit, L He flies from judgment.

I In old English law. Fatuity; idiocy.

I. In the civil law. A superhuman power of loss, beyond human foresight or means v. Damnum fatale.

I. In old English law. An idiot or fool; discreet or ill-considered. Fatuum judicium: or verdict

I. Narrow headlands and promontories, tion of the sea within them.

fausinerie, I. fr. Forgery.

I. fr. A forger, or counterfeiter.

falx, fause, faix, I. fr. In old English law. Faux action: a false action. Faux money: Faux peys: false weights. Faux serement: a In the civil law. The fraudulent alteration of the

fanser, faucher, I. fr. To falsify; to forge

Partiality; bias; affection, v. Challenge.

I. Favorable; entitled to favor; favored. lege sunt flscns, dos, Tita, libertas: things treasury, do-syer, life and hberty. Favorabiliores actores habentur: defendants are regarded

I. In international law. A treaty. Feedera: treaties.

In feudal and English law. The obligation lease payable, anin lands; the land land, as of an impost; words of operation

Apprehension of harm; apprehension of harm or punishment, as exhibited by outward and visible marks of emotion.

sax. Food, provisions; a feast or entertainment Fearme sillan: to give food.

faisance, feasannce, fesance, feasans, Ifr. A doing; the doing of an act; a making; the making of an indenture, release or obligation; the making of a statute.

faisant, fesaunt, I fr. Doing.

I. fr. Doer; maker. Feasors del estatute: makers of the statute.

I An order of priests or heralds among the Bomans, whose office was to declare war and make peace.

The law relating to declarations of war and treaties of peace among the Romans.

Founded upon or formed by a league, treaty, or compact between independent states, — as the government of the United States. In American law. Belonging to the general government, o

An estate of inheritance; a reward or compensation given to one for the execution of his oflS.ce, or for professional services. Fee simple: an absolute estate of inheritance; an un

In English law. A tenure of lands in fee, at a certain farm or rent Fee-farm rent: the rent reserved on granting lands in feefarm; the amount of which must have been at least one-f

An issue produced in a pretended action between two parties, for the purpose of trying a single question of fact It was formerly frequently directed by a court of chancery, the iss