A Law Dictionary and Glossary

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

I. fr. A doer; one who does a criminal act; an offender. Fei St ours: makers.

LI In Saxon law. One bound or pledged for another, — a friend who was bound in the decennary for the good behavior of another.

A servant in the same service with another and subject to the same general control.

LI. A felon. Felo de se: a felon of himself; a self murderer.

One who has committed felony.

fallonia, L L, Felonie, L fr. In old English law. Felony. Felonia de seipso: felony of himself. Felouia implicatur in qualibet proditione: felony is implied in every treason.

LL In old English law. Feloniously; an indispensable word in indictments for felony.

Having the quality of felony; criminal. Felonious homicide: the killing of a human creature of any age or sex, without justification or excuse.

In a felonious manner, — an indispensable word in modern indictments for felony, as felonice was in the Latin forms.

In American law. Any high crime punishable by death or imprisonment. In English law. An offense which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands or goods, at common law, and to w

fern, femme, fam, L fr. A woman; a wife. Feme covert, femme couverte: a woman protected, — that is, married. Feme sole: a spinster; — trader: a woman deserted by her husband who do

or tense. In old Scots law. To defend or protect by formal-

Feodum, I. I. In old English law. A fee. v. Fee; Feudunu Feodi flrina: fee farm; the farm of a fea Feodl flrmarius: the lessee or farmer of a fee; a holder in fee farm. Feodum est

Relating to, belonging to, or having the quality of feod, feud, or fee; feudal Feodal actions: real actions.

feudality. Fidelity or fealty.

feudary. In old English law. An oflacer of the court of wards, appointed by virtue of the statute 33 Henry VIII., c 46.

feudatory. In feudal law. The grantee of a/eod, /eud or fee; a tenant who held his estate by feudal service.

feofamentum, I. I. In old English law. A feoffment

feofare, 1 1. In old English law. To enfeoff; to give or bestow a fee. Feoffavi: I have enfeoffed.

The person to whom a feoffment is made; the person enfeoffed. Feoffee to uses: one in whom the legal estate is vested, the beneficial owner being the cestui que use.

The person making a feoffment.

feffement. A conveyance in fee, of land or other corporeal hereditaments, accompanied by livery of seisin or actual delivery of possession; the deed, instrument, or charter, as it

sax. A stipend; wages; reward; a fee.

I. L In old English law. A feoffer.

feofatus, I. I. In old English law. A feoffea

fearme, sax. Provisions; rent paid in provisions; a manor; a farm; a lease.

I. In old English law. A week day, as distinguished from Sunday; a holiday; a day exempt from judicial process; a fair; a ferry. Ferial days: working days, or week days, as disting

A franchise, consisting of a privilege, arising from grant or prescription, to have a boat or boats for carrying men and horses across a river for reasonable fare or toll.