A Law Dictionary and Glossary

I. fr. Doing, — an emphatic word in old deeds.

I. fr. A doer; an actor; the perpetrator of a crime. Fesours de teles noysaiince: the makers of such nuisance. Festinatio jiistitias est noverca infortunii, I. The hm-rying [hasty

In old English law. A surety or pledge; frankpledge

In English law. Earnestgiven to servants when hired, or retained in service, the amount actually paid being a shilling. In some places called fastening penny.

I fr. Done; made; a fact, deed, matter or business. Fet assaroir, fet assaver: a matter to be known or understood; the title of a small tract published at the end of Fleta.

fleu, flew, fewe, I fr. Fire; a fire-place or hearth. In old French and Canadian law. Feu et lieu: hearth and home.

few, ffew. In Scots law. A free and gratuitous right to lands, made to one for service to be performed by him, according to the proper nature thereof, — for a return in grain or mo

In Scots law. The tenant of a feu; a feu-vassal.

A stipendiary estate in land, held of a superior, upon condition of service; a hereditary right to use lands rendering services to the lord; a combination of kindred to revenge inj

Relating to or having the quality of a feudum, fief or fee, — the opposite of allodial. Feudal law: the law of feuds or feudal estates; the system of law by which the creation, enj

The Books (or customs) of Fiefs or Feuds; a compilation of feudal law, made about the middle of the twelfth century at Milan, in Lombardy. It is the most ancient work on the subjec

I. Let it be done. Fiat appellnm per verba appellnm facientia: the appeal must be made by words of appeal. Fiat seysina per fnstimetperbaculnm: seisin should be made by rod and sta

I. A fiction. Fictio cedit Teritati: a fiction yields to truth. Fictio juris: a fiction of law. Fictio legis inlqne operatur alicui damnum yel injuriam: a legal fiction should not

A legal assumption that a thing is true, which is either not true, or which is as probably false as true. Of such assumptions there are three kinds, — affirmative fictions, negativ

I. In the civil law. A person who had a beneficial interest in an estate which, for a time, was committed to the faith or trust of another.

I. In the civil law. A thing committed to one's faith; a trust, or bequest in trust; the disposal by will of an inheritance to a person, in confidence that he will convey it, or di

I In the civil law. To order a thing upon one's faith; to pledge one's self; to become surety for another. Fide-jubesJ Fide-jnlbeo: do you pledge yourself? I do pledge myself,

I. In the civil law. A contract in which a person binds himself, as a surety for another, without discharging the obligation of the principal.

I. In the civil law. A surety; a guarantor; one who binds himself for another; one who binds himself in the same contract conjointly with the debtor, for the greater, security of t

I. I. In feudal and old English law. Fealty; fidelity.

I. Faith; fidelity; allegiance; trust; confidence; honesty, sincerity, or uprightness of dealing; belief; veracity; credibility; faith; honor; pledged or plighted word or troth. Fi

Relating to a trust; founded upon confidence; founded upon a special or technical trust, as distinguished from an iinplied trust: Fief,/r. In feudal law. A f ea -v. Fee; Feudum. Fi

I. fr. In old English law. The holder of a fee; a fee-holder or fi-eeholder.

I To be made; to be done. Fieri facias: cause you to be made; a writ of execution directing the sheriff to make the amount of a judgment against lands and goods, but usually enforc

In English laiv. A species of tax upon personal property,

sax. In old English law. A mulct or fine imposed on a person for making a fight or quarrel to the disturbance of the peace.

A person who, after committing an offense, has fled from justice; a slave who has fled from his master.

sax. In Saxon law. A compensation, satisfaction or fine for breach of the peace.

sax. In Saxon law. A breach or violation of the peace.

filazer, fllizer. In English law. An old officer of the Court of Common Pleas and other courts, so called because he filed the writs whereon he made out process.

To put upon the files, or deposit among the records of a court; to place in the official custody of the clerk.

A string or wire, upon which writs and other exhibits in courts and offices were formerly fastened or filed for safe-keeping; the paper itself or a number of papers so filed.

I. Jr. A thread, line or mark. v. Filum aquoe.

To fix a bastard child on some one, as its father.

The relation of a son to his father; the adjudging of a bastard to be the child of a certain man.

I. In old English law. A son; a child. Filius est nomen iiatarse, sed liseres nomen juris: son is a name of nature, but heir is a name of law. Filius mnlieratus: v. Mulier. Filius

I. A thread. Filum aqnse: strictly a thread or line of water, a water line or mark, the outer line or edge of a stream; the water's edge; in modern usage, the same as medium filum

fr. An end, or limit; a limitation, or period of limitation. Fin de non-reeevoir: a legal bar to the maintenance of a claim.

Ending; making an end; conclusive. Final decree: a decree which finally decides and disposes of the whole merits of a cause. Final judgment: a judgment which puts an end to an acti

Z. In old English law. Ending; making an end or termination; final. Finalis concordia: a final concord or agreement; a fine of lands.

To ascertain upon judicial examination and inquiry; to ascertain and declare the existence of facts judicially: to determine an issue of fact in favor of one or the other party, an

The result of a judicial examination or inquiry, especially

To impose a pecuniary punishment; to adjudge or order that an offender pay a certain sum of money as a punishment for his offense.

A sum of money paid by an offender by way of punishment In old English law. Further, a sum of money paid for a privilege; a species of conveyance and assurance by matter of record,

I. fr. In old English law. An absolute necessity or constraint, not avoidable.

I. I In old English and Scots law. To make an end, or settlement; to make or pay a fine. Finem facere cum rege: "to fine with the king, or to make ane finance and satisfie him for

I fr. In old English law. The king's fines, — fines formerly payable to the king for any contempt or offense.

l.fr. In old English law. A fine upon grant, by acknowledgment of a grant de novo, but of no precedent right. Fine sur cognizance de droit: a fine upon acknowledgment of the right;

I. In the civil law. Action for regulating boundaries.

1. 1. In old English law. To fine, or pay a fine, upon composition.

I In old English law. An end or termination; a limit, terminus or boundary; a fine, or payment of money; a fine or conveyance of land. Finis rei attendendns est: the end of a thing

ferdfare, herdfare, sax. In old English law. A summoning forth to a military expedition; an acquittance from going to

ferdwite, ferdwyte, sax. In old English law. A fine for refusing military service; a fine for murder committed in the army; an acquittance of such fina

lireboot, sax. In old English law. An allowance of sufficient wood for fuel, for the use of a tenant for life or years.

The ordeal or trial by red-hot iron, either by taking a piece in the hand or by stepping barefoot and blindfolded over nine red-hot plough-shares laid lengthwise at unequal distanc

1. 1. In old English and Scots law. A firm, f erm, or farm; a lease or letting; a rent reserved on letting lands; a rent payable in money; a messuage with wood land, etc., connecte

1. 1. 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 oper

1. 1. In old English and Scots law. A lessee for a term; one having a term, ferm or farm in lands. Firmarius nihil liabet nisi tantum nsumfractum: the f ermor or lessee has nothing

The treasury or property of a prince or state. Hence confiscate, and the old word confi^h.

Relating to or connected with the treasury of a prince or state.

I. In English laie. The king's treasury, as the repository of forfeited property; the treasury of a noble, or of any private person. In the Roman law. The treasury of the emperor,

festuca, L I In old English law. A staff or wand, by the delivery of which the property in land or other thing was transferred.

A law writer, temp. Henry VIII., author of an abridgment of the year booki=, and of the new Natura Brevium, a treatise on writs.

A chattel so fixed or fastened to land or building as to become real property, — so fixed or fastened that it cannot be removed without material injury to itself or to the freehold

I. I In old English law. To plead; to state to a court in form of law; to litigate; to make the subject of a plea or action; to implead or prosecute. Placitantur placita: pleas are

L Burning; raging; in actual perpetration. Flagrans bellnm: a war actually going on. Flagrans crimen: a crime in the act of perpetration, or just perpetrated,

L In the heat, excitement or actual commission of an act. Flagrante bello: during actual war. Flagrante delicto, malefleio, crimiue: in the heat of the offense, in the very act

I. In the Roman law. The title of a book containing the forms of actions, published by Cneius Flavius, A. U. C. 449.

sax. In Saocon and old English law. A fine paid by an outlaw for pardon; the privilege of an outlawed fugitive of being discharged from amercements when he came to the king's peace

A prison in London, so called from Fleet river or ditch, near which it stood,^ formerly the prison of the Court of Chancery and the Common Pleas, now consolidated with the Queen's

flema, flyma, fleman. In Saxon and old English law. A fugitive bondman or villein; the privilege of having the goods and fines of fugitives.

sax. In old English law. The receiving or relieving of a fugitive.

sax. In Saxon and old English law. A fine imposed upon a fugitive.

flymenflrma, sax. In Saxon and old English law. The sustenance or support of fugitives, or outlaws; the fine for such oflensa

A general treatise on English law, supposed to have been writ-ten in the reign of Edward L; so called, as the author says, because written during his confinement in the Fleet priso

fletwite, sax. In Saxon and old English lata. A fine or mulct imposed on account of brawls and quarrels.

In American law. A certificate authorizing the entry of public land.

floudmarkc, flndmerk, o. eng. In old English law. The mark which the sea, at flowing water and highest tide, makes on the shore; liigh-water mark; flood-mark.

A copy of the Pandects discovered accidentally about the year 1137, at Amalphi, a town in Italy near Salerno.

Such things as, by accident, float on the top of the sea or great rivers.

floatsani, flotson. Floating on the water; goods lost by shipwreck.

I. I. In old English law. Flood; flow; flood-tide.

I. In old English law. Flood, or flood-tida In the civil law. A river.

Z. In old English law. A river. Fluyii regales: royal streams, — public rivers for public passage; flood, or flood-tide.

sax. A fugitive or outlaw.

A making known to the public, as by proclaiming or exposing to view; in the law of wills, a formal declaration by a testator at the time of signing his will that it is his last wil

fagalio, 1. I In old English, law. The hunting of wild animals in forests, chases and parks; the liberty of hunting.

I. I. In old E^iglish law. To chase or hunt; to course a deer; to drive. Fugare et refugfare catalla: to drive cattle to and fro.

I. In old English law. A fugitive; a person who fled upon commission of a felony; a villein or bondman who left his lord without the intention of returning. Fugitivi: fugitives. In

I. I. A fine or mulct paid for theft.

I. I. in old English laic. A tribute or tax paid to a lord by his tenants, for the use of his oven; a baker's fee.

L L In old English law. A beating with sticks or clubs; one of the ancient kinds of punishment of malefactors.

A transfer in the future such as will cure a defect in a titla Fntnre estate: an estate to which a person is entitled in future; an estate in expectancy.

I. I. Founderous; out of repair, as a road.

/. I. In old English law. Firewood, or fuel.

foderus, fodrum, fodrus, 1. 1. In old English law. Food for cattle; fodder. In feudal law. A contribution of corn or grain for the use of the king's army.

I. In the civil law. Nautical or maritime interest, — mterest after an extraordinary rate, agreed to be paid for the loan of money on the hazard of a voyage.

I. In the purpose; the i-escinding

1. 1. In old English lata. A kind of rank grass of late growth, and not eaten in summer; fogage.

sc In old Scots law. To forfeit