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See Sodomy.

The term "fellow" means a National Coral Reef Management Fellow. / The term “fellow” means an eligible fellowship recipient who is awarded a ServeAmerica Fellowship and i

A coheir; a partner of the same inheritance.

Whether the plaintiff was in the general employ of the defendant, or not, the service that he consented to render was the defendant's work. In rendering that, at least, he came und

the fellow-servant doctrine contemplated that an employee knew and assumed, when he accepted employment, the risks which negligence of his fellow employees might create. It was in

This rule proceeds on the theory that the employ e, in entering the service of the principal, is presumed to take upon himself the risks incident to the undertaking, among which ar

Certain servants of a common master, for injuries to one of whom by the negligence of another the master was not liable if he had exercised due care in the selection of the servant

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

the ordinary understanding of 'scholarships' and 'fellowships' as relatively disinterested, 'no-strings' educational grants, with no requirement of any substantial quid pro quo fro

the term "Fellowships Programs" means the SFC Sean Cooley and SPC Christopher Horton Congressional Gold Star Family Fellowship Program (commonly referred to as the "

A felon.

A suicide.

One guilty of felony.

EX VI TERMINI, SIGNIFICAT quodlibet capitate crimen felleo animo perpetratum. Felony, by force of the term, signifies some capital crime perpetrated with a malignant mind. Co. Litt

Co. Litt. 391. Felony, by force of the term, signifies any capital crime perpetrated with a malignant mind.

Felony, by the force of the term, signifies any capital crime committed with felonious intent.

Felony is implied in every treason.

3 Inst. 15. Felony is implied in every treason.

Feloniously. Cun. Diet Anciently it was said that this word must be used in all indictments for felony; 4 Bla. Com. 407; and Lord Coke includes it among the voces artis, — words of

To feloniously led away one horse.

He took it feloniously.

Having the quality of a felony; malignant; malicious; villainous; perfidious. In a legal sense, done with intent to commit a crime, of the nature of a felony; done with deliberate

Such an assault upon the person as, if consummated, would subject the party making it, upon conviction, to the punishment of a felony, that is, to imprisonment in the penitentiary.

The killing of a human creature, of my age or sex, without justification or excuse. It may include killing one's self, as well as any other person. 4 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 188. See

In pleading. This is a technical word which must be introduced into every indictment for a felony, charging the offense to have been committed feloniously. No other word nor any ci

offenses for which the offender, on conviction, may be punished by death or imprisonment in the state prison or penitentiary; but, in the absence of such statute, the word is used

[X. Fr. felonU; L. Lat. /elonia.] In criminal law. An offence which occasions a total forfeiture of either lands or goods, or both. 4 BL Com. 95, 98. An offence punishable by forfe

COMPOUNDING OF. See Compounding Felony.

The stat. 33 & 34 Viet. c. 23, abolishing forfeitures for felony, and sanctioning the appointment of interim curators and administrators of the property of felons. 4 Steph. Com. 10

See Compounding Felony.

“felony crime of violence” means an offense punishable by more than one year in prison that has as an element the use, attempted use, or threatened use of physical force against th

an offense that is punishable by imprisonment for more than one year under any law of the United States or of a State or foreign country that prohibits or restricts conduct relatin

Definition.—For purposes of this section, the term "felony violation enumerated in subsection (c)" means any offense that is a felony violation of— (1) section 641 (relat

The term “FEMA” means the Federal Emergency Management Agency.

The sex which bears the young. It is a general rule that the young of female animals which belong to us are ours; feetus ventrem sequitur. Inst. 2. 1. 19; Dig. slave came Into a fr

the term “female breast” means any portion of the female breast below the top of the areola; and

For purposes of this section, the term “female genital mutilation” means the removal or infibulation (or both) of the whole or part of the clitoris, the labia minora, or labia majo

The term “female genital mutilation or cutting” has the meaning given such term in section 116 of title 18 .

Or FEMME. A woman.

she is disabled from executing or acknowledging a deed by procuration, as she cannot make a power of attorney. These disabilities exist by statute and the common law for her protec

A wife de Jacto.

Fr. Female. Soitmasle soit femele; be it male or female. Britt. c. 18.

A woman.

An unmarried woman.

The law seems to be settled, that, when the wife is left without maintenance or support, by the husband, has traded as a feme sole, and has obtained credit as such, she ought to be

The killing of a woman. Wharton.

A married woman; a feme covert. Feemins ab omnibus officiis civilibus vel publicis remote sunt. Women are exeluded from all civil and public charges or offices. Dig. 50, 17,2; 1 Ex

Of or belonging to females. When the feminine is used, it is generally confined to females; as, if a man bequeathed all his mares to his son, his horses would not pass. See 3 Brev.

The term “FEMP designated product” means a product that is designated under the Federal Energy Management Program of the Department of Energy as being among the highest 25 percent

or FEONATIO. In forest law. The fawning of deer; the fawning season. Spelman.

A structure or erection between two contiguous estates, so as to divide them, or on the same estate, so as to divide one part from another. In Scotch Law. To hedge in or protect by

A month in which it is forbidden to hunt in the forest. It begins fifteen days before midsummer, and ends fifteen days after. Manw. For. Laws, c. 23. There were also fence months f

Fencing out' from the franchise a sector of the population because of the way they may vote is constitutionally impermissible

Usuary; the gain of interest; the practice of increasing money by lending. FENGELD (Saxon). A tribute exacted for repelling enemies. Spelman.

A tax imposed for repelling enemies.

A champion, hero, giant. This word, in the plural, is generally used to signify invaders or foreign spollers. The modern meaning of "fenlan" is a member of an organization of perso

In old English law. A period of time, occurring in the middle of summer, during which it was unlawful to hunt deer in the forest, that being their fawning season. Probably so calle

Said to be compounded of the two Saxon words feoh (stipend) and odh (property); by others, to be composed of feoh (stipend) and hod (condition). 2 Bl. Comm 45; Spelman. See "Fee."

Belonging to a fee or feud; feudal. More commonly used by the old writers than "feudal."

Real actions. 3 Sharswood, Bl. Comm. 117.

Fealty.

Feodal system. See Feudal Law.

See Feudal System.

or FEUDARAM C0NSUE> TUDINE8. See Feudal Laws.

The customs of feuds. The name of a compllation of feudal laws and customs made at Milan in the twelfth century. It is the most ancient work on the subject, and was always regarded

An officer in the court of wards, appointed by the master of that court, by virtue of St. 82 Hen. VIII. c. 46 to be present with the escheator at the finding offices, and to give i

An officer of the court of wards, appointed by the master of that court, under 32 Hen. VIII. c. 26, whose business it was to be present with the escheator in every county at the fi

or FEUDATORY. The tenant who held his estate by feuiial service. Termes de la Ley. FEODI FIRMA (Law Lat.) Fee farm (?• V.)

A fee-farm, which see.

The lessee of a fee farm.

The form in use by the old English law writers instead of feudum, and having the same meaning. Feudwn is used generally by the more modern writers and by the feudal law writers. Li

An inherited feud, as distinguished from feodum, novum, a feud acquired by the tenant. FEODUM EST QUOD QUIS TENET EX quacunque causa; sive sit tenementum sive reddit^s. A fee is th

A fee is something that one holds from whatever cause, whether it be tenement or rent.

Co. Litt. 1. A fee is that which any one holds from whatever cause, whether tenement or rent.

A fief for which the tenant did guard and owed homage. Spelman.

See Feudum nobile .

See "Feodum Antiquum.!' FEODUM SIMPLEX QUIA FEODUM idem est quod haereditas, et simplex idem est quod legitimum vel purum; et sic feodum simplex Idem est quod haereditas legitlma v

A new fee held with the qualities and incidents of an ancient one. 2 Bl. Comm. 212.

A fee simple, because fee is the same as inheritance and simple is same as lawful or pure; and so fee simple is the same as lawful inheritance or pure inheritance.

Litt. § 1. A fee-simple, so called because fee is the same as inheritance, and simple is the same as lawful or pure; and thus fee-simple is the same as a lawful inheritance, or pur

i. e., HAEREDItas In quandam certitudinem llmitata. Fee tail, i. e., an inheritance limited in a definite descent. Litt. § 13.

A fee-tail, that is an inheritance limited in a certain descent.

Lat. [from feoffare, q. v.] In old English law. A feoffment; the gift of a fee; the act of enfeoffing. Spelman, voc. Feoffare. More commonly written feoffamentum, (q. v.)

Lat. To enfeoff. 5pe/man. See Feoffare.

A feoffment. 2 Bl. Comm. 310.

To bestow a fee. 1 Reeve, Hist. Eng. Law, 91.

To enfeoff; to bestow a fee. The bestower was called "feoffator," and the grantee or feoffee, "feoffatus."

In old English law. A feoflfer; one who gives or bestows a fee; one who makes a feoffment. Bracton, • f ols. 12b, 81.

A feoffee.

He enfeoffed.

He to whom a fee is conveyed. Litt. § Ij 2 Bl. Comm. 20.

A person to whom land was conveyed for the use of a third party. One holding the same position with swers to the haeres fiduciarius of the Roman law.

A gift of any corporeal hereditaments to another. It operates by transmutation of possession, and it is essential to its completion that the seisin be passed. Watk. Conv. 183. The

A feoffment of lands to one person to the use of another.

He who makes a feoffment. 2 Bl. Comm. 20; Litt. § 1. FEOH (Saxon). A reward; wages; a fee. The word was in common use in these senses. Spelman, Feuds.

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

A fee; a reward.

I. L In old English law. A feoffer.

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

1. The gift of a feud; infeudation. See Feud. Enfeoff. To give a feud. reoffor. The grantor of a feud. Feoffee. The giantee of a feud. 2. The gift of any corporeal hereditament," b